Paris City opens doors to homeless people

Paris City Hall will open the doors this winter for homeless people. This comes as part of a broad plan to use the municipal public building as an emergency shelter.

The news has been confirmed by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo, stressing that about 3 thousand countries are needed for housing in Paris, Euronews writes.

She also said some city, left or right mini mayors have agreed to open the doors of institutions as shelters for these people.

Even the building where she works, a 19th - century building in the heart of Paris, will open up a shelter for women, where at least 50 people or 100 will be accommodated on nights when temperatures will be very low.

Mayor Hidalgo, who had promised to create 1,500 emergency places for homeless people before the end of the year, has already mobilised various public buildings and urges the government to create the other half of the necessary sites.