Sleep on the street or sleep in the street

0Squatters have moved into a vacant office block in Paris and also set up a tent city along a canal in the capital. 02br
00The office building, near the Paris stock exchange, has been nicknamed the "ministry for the housing crisis". 02br
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00Three housing lobby groups took it over and then invited families to move in. Homeless Parisians are also camping out in 200 tents by the Canal Saint Martin. 02br
00Lobby groups say about a million people in France are homeless, of whom 100,000 are sleeping on the streets. 02br
00Under the government plan, from the end of 2008, the right to housing will apply to homeless people, impoverished workers and single mothers. 02br
00All those living in slums are to benefit from the same right from the start of 2012, Mr de Villepin said. 02br
00The new legislation is designed to put housing in the same legal category as education and health in French law. It is a key demand of the campaign groups for the homeless. 02br
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01font00I don't think to say 'sleeping on the streets' is correct. It should be 'sleeping in the street'. Usually or rather I have seen homeless people sleeping in the pavements. If they sleep on the streets, the traffic should be detour. What do you think?02font02br
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