If visitors to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are impressed by the lack of homelessness on the city’s streets, this will not be because the issue has been resolved. It is instead being brushed under the carpet—or, rather, shifted temporarily to nearby towns.
According to CNN, between 50 and 150 people have been carted out of the city every week during the summer, and removed to one of ten locations across France. Officials in these areas were asked earlier in the year to establish “temporary regional accommodation facilities.”
