The housing crisis isn’t just affecting residents of Quebec, it’s also raging across the Atlantic when a young worker had to sleep in a public toilet to keep his job.
Damien Vigie, 22, landed a full-time job at an Intermarché store in Hasparren, in the Basque Country of south-west France.
However, the young man was willing to do anything to keep his job, which gave him some autonomy with a net salary of almost $1,900.
After a friend helped him, he had to start looking for a home, even if it meant sleeping on the street while he waited, the Sud-Ouest newspaper reported on Monday.
“I slept in a public toilet for three days. I finished my nights at the Intermarché and went there at 4 p.m. for the opening,” the young man told the same media.
His applications for council housing went unanswered, although welfare provided him with a home for only three months.
Tired from the struggle, he has to give up everything and return to his family in Bandol, near Marseille, who no longer want to sleep in public toilets.