nights of emergency accommodation were provided

Supporting exiled and isolated people in France

Utopia 56

On the night of Thursday, January 22, 2026, Paris City Hall organized, as it does every year, the Nuit de la Solidarité, an operation to count the number of homeless people in the capital.

The figures have just been made public. 

They are staggering: 3,857 people surviving on the streets were counted that night.

A 10% increase on 2025, 
and a 30% increase on 2022. 

However, this figure is a far cry from reality.

In Paris, at least 3857 people are homeless

To mark the 10th anniversary of Utopia 56, we organized a festive weekend. Throughout the weekend there were talks, concerts and a solidarity braderie!"
It was a great time to get together, take a break, look back for a moment, get together and take the time.

10 years of Utopia 56

Dear Difteurs,

We'd like to share with you our recent video/insta publication: We're warning once again: tomorrow, 200 more people will be sleeping rough without the public authorities taking responsibility. As a result of the summer and increasingly aggressive public policies on housing and emergency accommodation, we are no longer in a position to welcome and house these people. Citizen solidarity has reached its limits. It's just a question of political will.

Here's the link to the video

We are warning once again: tomorrow, 200 more people will be sleeping rough

Dear Difteur-ses,

Victory! On Monday, May 5, 2025, the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, was overruled by the Paris administrative court, which ruled in favor of the solidarity associations.

A little flashback to explain the context:

On October 9, 2023, the Paris police prefect issued an order banning food distributions in Paris, in a delimited sector of the 10ᵉ and 19ᵉ arrondissements, from Tuesday, October 10, 2023 to Friday, November 10, 2023 inclusive.

This order was aimed at preventing street people from accessing their only source of food, thereby infringing the freedom to come and go, the freedom of assembly, the principle of human dignity, the international convention on the rights of the child, the right to food and the right to assistance. 

We had therefore immediately filed a summary annulment as well as a request for suspension before the Paris Administrative Court. 
The aim: to have the decree suspended until a judge could rule on the merits. On Sunday evening, we organized a large food distribution at the foot of the Stalingrad metro station, on the edge of the forbidden zone, with associations, people concerned and supporters, to protest against this abject decision.

This Monday, May 5, 2025, i.e. 1 and a half years after the banning order was issued, the Paris Administrative Court handed down its decision: it purely and simply annulled the order.

The fight goes on.

We will systematically challenge these violations and infringements of fundamental rights.

A big THANK YOU for your support!

Victory for Utopia 56 against anti-food distribution bylaws in Paris.

Dear difteurs,

The weekend of January 11 and 12 saw the premier festival d'Utopia 56 at the Point Éphémère, in Paris.

Throughout the weekend, there were photo exhibitions, screening-debates, a tombola, as well as tattoo and dental rhinestone stands. Acoustic concerts also punctuated the days.

Two round tables were organized on the following themes:
Freedom of movementGender, violence and migration
We were very proud to be able to offer this festive moment, which is an integral part of mobilization in the current context. We've been working on this idea for a long time, and the project has been taking shape over the last few months. ✨

The aim of this event was to raise the general public's awareness of the issue of welcome, by proposing a different gathering space to continue thinking together.

A big thank you to you, dear difteurs, for your invaluable support and donations 🙏

Festival Utopia 56 "Against these walls and borders

Dear difteurs,&nbsp;

Utopia 56 publishes, as every year, its annual activity report, summarizing all the activities carried out in our eight antennas and five shelters in 2023.

Find in it all the missions and projects carried out in 2023, as well as the outlook for 2024.
https://utopia56.org/sortie-de-notre-rapport-dactivite-2023/

Many thanks to you for your invaluable support and your many difts!

Release of our 2023 business report

15 days ago, we celebrated the seventh anniversary of Utopia 56's Touraine branch, at an evening of support!!

Seven years of fighting for and defending the rights of exiled young people, seven years of civic commitment, volunteer work and supportive accommodation.

Over these years, we have sheltered over 1400 young people. 1400 young people whose minority was contested on their arrival in France, to whom the Indre-et-Loire department denied any rights, abandoning them to the streets.

Since 2017, we have been mobilized to palliate the State's failings, support these young people in their administrative appeals, house and educate them, in short, welcome them with the respect and dignity they deserve.

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