Outraged by the inaction of the authorities in the face of a serious humanitarian crisis linked to poor housing and deeply moved by the distress of so many people, he launched an appeal on 1 February This brought about a huge uprising of solidarity, and a long-awaited political response to the housing crisis. At the end of , there were officially 7 million people in France living in substandard housing. However, the Parliament adjourned the amendment indefinitely.
If everyone gave one hundred francs [โฆ] without depriving them of a single gram of butter on their bread!
Just think how much that would be! She had been evicted from her home the previous night and froze to death on the street. Working with his friend, the journalist and MP Georges Verpraet, he drafted an appeal, read first on Paris-Inter and then on Radio Luxembourg by the two men at midday on the very same day.
Donations of money and items for the homeless came flooding in. They belong to the vagabond that I was and that I embodied. The Government followed suit. Three days later, it freed up 10 billion francs for the construction of 10, emergency homes, and approved a law forbidding evictions during the winter.
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