Overview
- The ninth Nuit de la solidarité counted 3,857 people without shelter across Paris and Grand Paris on 22–23 January, a 10% increase from 2025.
- Nearly one in five people counted (721) were in groups of 20 or more, with 16 large encampments identified.
- Participating suburbs reported a 32% year‑on‑year jump, with hotspots including Saint‑Denis (395, of whom 254 in encampments) and Saint‑Ouen‑sur‑Seine (133, including 100 in a single camp).
- Women represented 11% versus 14% last year, a change organizers tentatively link to cold‑weather sheltering actions.
- The tally excludes people accommodated in the state emergency system; SIAO capacity stood at 44,000 places at end‑2025 (about 1,800 fewer than in 2023), and Paris reports creating roughly 1,000 municipal places since 2023 as homelessness policy becomes a central municipal campaign issue.