Toulouse: Unsanitary hotel rooms offered by 115?
The report of the unworthy habitat observatory was published on Tuesday. For a year, CNRS researchers supported by volunteers from associations, photographers and activists from the League of Human Rights, Doctors of the World and the Circle of Neighbors visited and investigated the hotels offered to Toulouse by the 115 as emergency housing.
In 6 months, the number of people accommodated has increased from 600 to 2200. A result of 25 to 30% of hotels with unworthy conditions. ” There are traces of humidity, cockroaches, bedbugs, clogged toilets observes Daniel Welzer Lang, professor of sociology and co-scientific director of the report. He adds : ” 25% of people have been there for more than a year, emergency accommodation is not temporary accommodation “.
A detailed detailed study by Emilie Fernandez, sociologist and coordinator of the photographic part of this survey: “ We left in pairs, an observer with a grid of questions and a photographer, to facilitate the story of the people accommodated and make a material inventory of the rooms “. Among these questions, domestic violence was mentioned: “ it calls into question the right of people accommodated to receive people in their rooms she assures.
An exhibition bringing together all these photos is to be found from October 25, 2022 to December 9 at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès.
Theo Rodriguez
Photo BV – Toulouse, evacuation of the former Ehpad des Tourelles