The 2024 Summer Olympics Are Approaching, But Paris Has A Lot To Do

 

Paris is in a race against time to get everything ready for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, which will be held in less than nine months.

These are some of the difficulties Paris faces:

1. Authorities want to put an end to street vendors. The bouquinistes, or book merchants who have traditionally operated out of wooden booths along the Seine, are among the industries that are in danger. 
2. About half of France’s 200,000 homeless individuals reside in Paris and the neighboring Ile-de-France region, where they could take advantage of greater employment possibilities and access to charitable organizations. 
3. The French metropolis has seen an increase in bedbug populations for a number of years, but this summer’s annual jump is the largest ever. 
4. The new Olympic Village in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis is set to host 22,500 Olympians and Paralympians during the Games.
5. The approaching Olympics have seen a reemergence of the decades-old debate over the wearing of religious symbols, in particular veils, in French public life which is constitutionally secular.