A first, experimental Night of Solidarity took place in a dozen or so volunteering, municipal communes in the Greater Paris - Grand Paris Metropolis, during the night of 20th to 21st January 2022. Aubervilliers, Bobigny, Bondy, Courbevoie, Gagny, Rosny-sous-Bois, Romainville, Rueil-Malmaison and Saint-Denis (the only commune with partial coverage) partook in this first ever, metropolitan scale night. The town of Saint-Ouen also became involved later on in the process as an experimental trial on its territory.
At the outcome of the initial count, the results of which will be consolidated by the summer 2022, 487 homeless people were met in the 9 communes, 240 of whom were in a family camp on private land in Bobigny.
The homeless people counted were unevenly located among the volunteer communes with 204 people met in the streets and 283 met in other spaces (campsites, the adresses of social housing premises, APHP waiting rooms, car parks and underground passages). Few homeless people were counted in five communes (between 1 and 7 people counted in Bondy, Gagny, Romainville, Rosny-sous-Bois, Rueil-Malmaison). Specific situations were noteworthy: the presence of tents along the canal in Aubervilliers, people living in car parks and underground passages of La Défense (Courbevoie), 254 people in two camps in Bobigny in the Park La Bergère and in the Industrial Zone des Vignes
It is to be noted that in eight of the nine voluntary communes, the operation was pooled with the INSEE “Mobile homes and the homeless - Habitations mobiles et sans-abri” collection as part of the general population census.
