“I have only been in this accommodation for three months! I have just arrived in Quimper. The house where Natasha lives, on Pen ar Stang Street, in Quimper, was burned last Sunday, September 1. “I was happy to find this T3 building with two bedrooms and a good location for me and my son,” admits the mother, whose accommodation is now uninhabitable. After being hospitalised for shortness of breath during the evening, the mother and son were released around 1 a.m. “Luckily I had booked a hotel room that same evening.”
A call for help has been launched on social networks.
Aware of the current housing crisis, the mother launched an appeal for help on social networks the next day. “It’s unbelievable, I received between 400 and 500 messages in return. People offered to let us stay in their house for the night, they wanted to give me clothes, equipment, food, a little bit of everything!”, she admits, still touched by this outpouring of generosity. At the same time, she contacted the city council, which referred her to the CCAS. “I was offered emergency rehousing for two months,” Natasha recalls. “I’m not a princess, but when I saw the state he was in, I couldn’t see myself living there with my son, especially after everything he had been through.” The mother takes the keys, but calls her home insurance.
“They paid me for five extra nights at the hotel.” Meanwhile, the mother started a new job, two days after the fire. “I couldn't concentrate, I was thinking about my son who needed me to reassure him. I couldn't leave him like that. I had to end my probationary period,” Natacha says bitterly. But in her struggle for housing, the mother receives a lot of advice and avenues to explore, notably thanks to the solidarity she finds on social networks. She contacted Quimper Cornouaille Opac to apply for social housing. “My file was put together in a week. I registered on Friday morning. They were very kind. My case should be examined by the committee on Tuesday, September 24. Fingers crossed.
In a mobile home in Lanieron
She no longer wants to return to her old home, Pen ar Stang Street. “I'm afraid I won't feel safe there. My son isn't calm either. There are too many bad memories there.” Since last Sunday (September 15), Kemperwijs has found shelter in a mobile home, at the Laneron campsite, for a month, paid for by her insurance company. A temporary solution that suits her while she waits for a response from the social landlord, even if she continues to look for housing through all possible channels.
