Emergency Shelter & Meals Fund
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Funds emergency shelter beds and hot meals for France's homeless population, estimated at 350,000 people in the latest national estimate — more than double the 2012 figure.
Source: Fondation pour le logement des défavorisés — annual report on housing exclusion (2025/2026)
Why this matters in France
Paris concentrates a large share of France's homeless population, and the people calling for help on any given night include families with young children, asylum seekers waiting for a place in the reception system, older men who have slept out for years and young people leaving care. Night after night, some of those who dial the 115 emergency number are told no bed is available.
French law recognizes a right to emergency shelter, but the supply of beds has not kept pace with need, and much of the capacity in the Paris region relies on hotel rooms booked night by night. That makes shelter unstable: families can be moved between hotels across Île-de-France, far from their children's schools and from services that could help them find housing. Food is a further gap, because hotel rooms rarely have kitchens and families placed in them often have no way to cook a hot meal.
What your gift pays for
- Emergency shelter and hotel nights booked through the 115 emergency line
- Hot meals and food distributions for families placed in rooms without kitchens
- Night outreach rounds that check on people sleeping outside and offer a place
- Hygiene kits, blankets and warm clothing handed out on the street
Organization
Samusocial de Paris · France
INSEE SIRENE (SIREN), public-interest group · No. 187509013
Founded 1994 · Headquarters: Paris
Public-interest body (GIP) running Paris emergency shelter placements and night street outreach for homeless people.
How they work: Samusocial de Paris was created on the model of an emergency medical service, so its teams go to people rather than waiting for them to arrive. Mobile night teams, typically pairing a nurse and a social worker with a driver, patrol the city and respond to calls. It operates the 115 line for Paris, allocates shelter places including hotel rooms, and runs medical beds for homeless people who are ill but do not need hospital care. Its research observatory studies the homeless population to inform policy.
Track record: In 2023 Samusocial de Paris answered an average of 2,165 calls a day to the 115 emergency line and booked over 40,000 shelter nights each evening.
✓ Verified by our team on 26 January 2023
Giving in France
Pressures on cities and household budgets tie the French causes together. Samusocial de Paris provides shelter beds and hot meals for a homeless population estimated at 350,000, more than double the 2012 figure. Young refugees and asylum seekers receive French-language bridging classes as they enter school, children in lower-income neighborhoods get free one-to-one mentoring from university students, and low-income pensioners receive heating help in winter. Partners are French associations, among them Apprentis d'Auteuil, AFEV and Petits Freres des Pauvres.
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