Private housing made available to the homeless: what is the “Airbnb of solidarity” project ?

With temperatures falling, living on the street is an ordeal for the homeless MAXPPP – IMAGEPLOTTER/Avalon

Guest on Hello l'Île-de-France this Friday January 12, Pierre-Yves Bournazel member of the Horizons d' Edouard Philippe and candidate for mayor of Paris in 2026, said he wanted to set up an "Airbnb of solidarity". 

With the cold wave that has hit France in recent days, the cases of people living on the streets worry some elected officials. 

PCF senator Ian Brossat launched a petition last week to requisition vacant housing and make it available to homeless people. 

Subsequently, Pierre-Yves Bournazel imagined an "Airbnb of solidarity". His idea: "a housing platform where individuals could offer their property to accommodate homeless people". 

💬 "Ces plateformes, c'est immédiatement opérationnel"

Pierre-Yves Bournazel propose un système de "Airbnb solidaire" pour héberger les personnes à la rue pic.twitter.com/BXmIgb0iqV

— BFM Paris Île-de-France (@BFMParis) January 12, 2024

"We need a fiscal lever, with a sanction when you don't put your home on the market, and an incentive when you put it", advances this municipal councilor and candidate at the Paris town hall of the Horizon party. 

Paris town hall open to debate

Like the association "Utopia 56" which has set up an emergency accommodation system based on the goodwill of 500 citizens, the idea is to accommodate for a variable duration people without fixed address, details 20 ​​Minutes. The rental must be financed by the Paris town hall and the State so as to compensate the owners. 

Anne Hidalgo's solidarity assistant, Léa Filoche, spoke out in favor of studying this proposal, announcing herself as a “supporter”. of all the solutions. "It’s up to the State to finance that, I'm convinced of it", maintains Yann Manzi, the co-founder of Utopia 56. 

Other solutions mentioned 

The complexity of the requisition of vacant housing by town halls pushed Ian Brossat to ask that the competence of requisition" to mayors, reports Actu-juridique. 

This only applies in emergency situations. To do this, he tabled a bill "relating to the evolution of the right to requisition real estate in tense areas", underlines Actu-juridique. < /p>

As for him, Pierre-Yves Bournazel would like social hotels to be bought to accommodate people as part of emergency accommodation.&nbsp ;