Authorities are looking for temporary facilities for more homeless persons in Angers

If the human consequencies of winter affect all the Maine-et-Loire inhabitants, they are maybe more visible in Angers. Towns gather homeless persons who find in their boundaries food help, shelter and social assistance. More numerous persons, sometimes families, from the region or from abroad, could, during the cold season 2012-2013, find themselves in desperate conditions because the worsening economic "climate" will put them a severe test in the months to come.

The measure Angers city council has passed a few days ago about the prohibition of alcohol consumption in down town streets will certainly calm anxiety of residents and store owners. But it will not strike the root of the problem. If homeless are source of concern because they are over alcoholized, it's simply because wines and hard liquors are their only way to endure (temporarily) themselves from the cold. And temperatures are far to be at their minimum in Angers before next spring...

So the Maine-et-Loire prefecture, as well as other cities, has started to anticipate the problem by launching on November 1st the "intense cold plan" because Angers could maybe face an increase of homeless in the months to come. That state authority is looking for "further rough and ready facilities for temporary housing" in town. That could reassure (a little) Angers town hall which recently noticed that the existing facilites were already overloaded and warned that the city could not host more misery from abroad. A difficult winter is feared.