2024-02-26 10:42:50
Some 120 people, including around twenty Roma, demonstrated on Saturday followingnoon in downtown Lausanne to oppose the imminent closure of the emergency accommodation on rue de la Borde 47. homeless people demand that this Lausanne site be maintained while waiting for alternatives.
Under the banner “No more expulsion without rehousing”, the demonstration was organized by several radical left parties, including the POP and Solidarity, the Sud union (students and precarious workers) and organizations defending the homeless. Their objective is “to prevent the Municipality from putting entire families on the street”, according to their demands. They are asking for the “sustainability of an alternative accommodation project”.
With around twenty Roma leading the way, including several children, the procession paraded through the streets of Lausanne in the middle of the followingnoon. Two large banners read “No eviction without solution” and “Help us stay warm with our children”.
Dilapidated and insecure building
The old building at Borde 47 currently houses some 80 people from several Roma families, including around sixty welcomed since last summer from other emergency accommodation in the Lausanne system and around twenty who arrived in Lausanne this fall. “These represent the vast majority of situations involving homeless families in Lausanne who request emergency accommodation,” recalls the City of Lausanne.
They will have to leave the premises at the beginning of March due to the dilapidation, unsanitary and unsafe nature of the building and its accommodation, which will be demolished by its private owner, the Société cooperative d’habitation Lausanne (SCHL). ), explain the Lausanne authorities. The date was known and communicated from the start of the reception of these people. The Municipality thus refutes the term “expulsion”.
The municipal official in charge of the file Emilie Moeschler ensures that the situations are being evaluated by the City and its partners. “If they cannot be accommodated in the social housing assistance system or emergency transitional accommodation in Renens, women and children have priority in the emergency accommodation system,” he said. -she indicated to Keystone-ATS.
New location opened in Tivoli
The City also announces that a new location will open on March 1 on Avenue de Tivoli. It will have 42 beds to accommodate women, families and men.
In total, according to Ms. Moeschler’s services, 235 places will now be available to the homeless throughout the year (Tivoli 42 places, Sleep In 26, Marmotte 31, Saint-Martin 41, PC de la Vallée shelter of Youth 60 and the emergency transitional accommodation of Renens 35).
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