Results of the Night of Solidarity on 22nd January 2026

More than 4,000 volunteers made the count possible (professionals, volunteering citizens, members of associations, elected officials, etc.). Teams of 3 to 5 people combed all the public spaces in the municipalities. The operation also covered specific areas made accessible through specific partnerships with the responsible bodies: over 300 RATP metro and RER stations, about 30 SNCF train stations, 16 AP-HP hospitals and the Delafontaine Hospital in Saint-Denis, the Defence area in conjunction with the Public Authority, about 20 camps, the embankments and emergency exits of the Peripherique ring-road, parks and gardens, woods, the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes woods, car parks and social landlord premises and residence addresses (lobbies, cellars, common areas, etc.).

When possible, volunteers ask the people they meet to answer an anonymous questionnaire. In addition to counting homeless people, the aim is to gain a better understanding of their profiles and needs. Only homeless people are counted, i.e. those with no accommodation for the night (who are in the street or an unsuitable place for sleeping). People lodging (in hotels, shelter centres, at another person's accommodation, in squats etc.) are not counted.
 
The initial analysis of the results indicates that 3,857 people were without shelter in Paris on the night of 22nd to 23rd January 2026, of whom 721 were in groups of 20 or more people. In the 33 other municipalities of Grand Paris that participated in the operation, the initial analysis establishes a total of 1,083 homeless people counted on the night of 22nd to 23rd January 2026, of whom 474 were in groups of 20 or more.
 
These results show a 10% increase in the number of people counted in Paris compared with January 2025 (+350 people). As on previous Nights of Solidarity, this figure is considered as a minimum number. Certain people are not visible or may be mobile, and occupied tents which are closed are counted as one person.
 
Out of the 357 areas counted in Paris, 16 had no homeless people, demonstrating the widespread presence across the whole of the territory. Seven people out of ten (70%) were encountered in the streets (2,706 people) and three out of ten in other spaces:

• 400 on Boulvard Peripherique embankments and emergency exits, as well as in parks and gardens (+64 compared with January 2025);
• 233 in the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes woods (+43);
• 210 in seven SNCF Parisian train stations (+42);
• 171 in all the RATP metro and RER stations (-29);
• 66 at social landlord addresses, including a count made by caretakers of Paris Habitat and coverage by the security service GPIS (+25);
• 40 in car parks managed by partner operators Effia, Indigo, Klepierre and Saemes (-12);
• 31 in 12 Parisian AP-HP hospitals (-31).

Among the people met in Paris in 2026, 11% were women. Over the course of one year, there has been a drop in the number of women counted (proportionally there were 14% in January 2025). This could be linked to the shelter provided during the Grand Froid (extremely cold period) when exceptional measures were put in place by the City of Paris. All age groups were represented. Among the adults met, one in ten was between 18 and 24 years old (10%), three-quarters were aged between 25 and 54 (73%) and 17% were 55 or  over. In addition to this, 78 children were counted, most of whom were with their families (compared with 90 in 2025).
 
The 2026 Night of Solidarity was marked by a large number of camps of men on their own, some of whom had migrated and were in various situations (asylum seekers, refugees, rejected asylum seekers etc.) and camps of Roma family groups and other similar groups. Although a majority of people were met alone (58%), this percentage has reduced over the past years. The number and proportion of people met in groups has risen steadily since 2022. In 2026, 721 people were met in groups of 20 or more people in Paris (19% of the  total), compared with 214 people (6%) on the 2025 Night of Solidarity.
 
In an area equivalent to the 30 municipalities which already participated in the 2025 Night of Solidarity, there has been an increase of 32% in the number of homeless people observed in a single year (+248 people). This increase can be explained by a greater number of Roma or similar family camps in the participating municipalities and a growth in the size of camps in municipalities where they were already present. These camps, which are mobile and constantly changing, could potentially be present in other municipalities in the metropolis which did not participate in the counts of previous Nights of Solidarity.
 
The municipality of Saint-Denis had the highest number of people counted among the municipalities outside Paris that participated in the operation (395, of whom 254 were in groups of 20 or more people). The number of homeless people was also high in the municipality of  Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (133, of whom 100 were in camps). The number of homeless people in Bobigny was over 50 (87 people, 20 of whom were in a camp), Pantin (72, of whom  47 were in a camp) and Noisy-le-Grand (55, of whom 23 people were in a camp).

Around thirty people or fewer were met in other municipalities: 36 in Gagny (including 30 in a camp), 33 in Courbevoie, 31 in the area of La Defense outside Courbevoie, 31 in Rosny-sous-Bois, 28 in Nanterre, 27 in Colombes, 27 in Aubervilliers, 20 in Sevran, 13 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, 12 in Bondy, 12 in Clichy-sous-Bois, 12 in Villejuif, 8 in Rueil-Malmaison, 8 in Epinay-sur-Seine, 7 in Athis-Mons, 6 in Vincennes, 6 in Alfortville, 5 in Kremlin-Bicetre, 4 in Sevres, 4 in Tremblay-en-France, 4 in Romainville, 3 in Montrouge, 2 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, 2 in Lilas, 1 in Pre-Saint-Gervais and none in Chaville, Livry-Gargan, Villeneuve-la-Garenne or Villetaneuse.

The 2026 figures come against a backdrop of a rise in the accommodation provision between 2019 and 2022 which then stabilised. Within this provision, the number of general-purpose accommodation places has increased, while those provided by the national reception system has decreased. At the end of 2025, according to the government, nearly 86,000 places, including more than 37,000 in hotels, were regulated by the Integrated Reception and Orientation Services - Service Intégrés d’Accueil et d’Orientation - (SIAO) and the French Immigration and Integration Offices - Offices Français de l’Immigration et de l’Intégration - (OFII) in Paris and the inner suburbs (92-93-94), all schemes combined. Some of these places were opened exceptionally in the context of measures taken during the extremely cold period - Plan Grand Frois - activated on 28th December 2025 and maintained during the night of 22nd to 23rd January 2026.
 
These initial results will be consolidated by the summer of 2026 and will be the subject of a study conducted by the Paris Urbanism Agency in conjunction with a committee made up of  academics, project partners and experts in the field of exclusion. All the studies published since 2018 are available on the websites of the City of Paris, Grand Paris Metropolis and the Paris Urbanism Agency - Apur -.