The Night of Solidarity is an operation that counts the number of people in a territory with no accommodation on a given night.
The 8th Night of Solidarity took place on the night of 23rd to 24th January 2025. On the same night, Grand Paris Metropolis coordinated the 4th Metropolitan operation in 30 municipal Communes, mobilising 2,000 volunteers.
Apur assists Grand Paris Metropolis and the volunteering municipal Communes to prepare, and implement the operation and then analyses the results.
693 sectors were thoroughly explored during the operation in the 31 participating municipalities, as well as specific sectors covered in liaison with the relevant partners: all the metro and RER stations in Paris and the 39 outside Paris Proper, a dozen SNCF stations covered by volunteers in partnership with the SNCF/Transilien network, waiting-rooms of 16 AP-HP hospitals as well as the Delafontaine Hospital in Saint-Denis, the sector of La Defense (overground and underground, car-parks etc.), several campsites (Paris, Bobigny, Saint-Denis, etc.), 28 embankments and 7 emergency exits of the Peripherique ring-road, private car parks, social landlord premises and hostels (halls, cellars, car parks etc.), parks and gardens, forests and the woods, Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes.
3507 homeless people were counted in Paris during the night of 23rd to 24th January 2025. Following a decrease in the number of homeless people during the health crisis, their number has once again risen since 2023. The number of people counted on 23rd January 2025 is close to that in 2024.
768 people were met on the same night in the 30 voluntary Grand Paris Metropolis municipal Communes that took part in the operation.
- More than 100 people were counted in two municipal Communes: in the new municipal Commune de Saint-Denis (203 people compared with 197 in January 2024) and in Bobigny (167 people, of whom 104 were in a family camp, compared with 62 in 2024, a night when no family camps were counted).
- Between 20 to 50 homeless people were counted in eight municipal Communes: Pantin (45), Clichy-sous-Bois (38), Nanterre (33), Sevran (28), Courbevoie (27), Aubervilliers (25), Colombes (25), Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (22).
- Between 10 and 20 homeless people were counted in six municipal Communes: Rosny-sous-Bois (15), Montrouge (13), Issy-les-Moulineaux (13), Bondy (13), Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (11), Athis-Mons (10).
- Fewer than 10 people were counted in 12 municipal Communes: Rueil-Malmaison (8), Alfortville (8), Vincennes (6), Villejuif (6), Juvisy-sur-Orge (6), Gagny (6), Villetaneuse (4), Villeneuve-la-Garenne (4), Chaville (4), Sèvres (3), Les Lilas (3), Le-Pré-Saint-Gervais (1).
- No homeless people were counted in two municipal Communes: Romainville (like in 2024) et Livry-Gargan (compared with 5 in 2024).
These initial results will be consolidated by the summer 2025 and form the basis of a study on the subject.
