2023-10-27 11:19:10
The government will ask prefects to no longer allocate housing in priority neighborhoods to households in greatest difficulty, in order to promote social diversity, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced on Friday, October 27. “I therefore ask the prefects to no longer settle the most precarious people in the neighborhoods which already have the most difficulties” through the allocation of housing or the creation of accommodation places.declared the head of government at the end of the Interministerial Committee of Cities, held in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, in Yvelines.
“We must take determined action to stem the phenomena of concentration of poverty and difficulties in neighborhoods, she explained. All difficulties cannot be gathered in one place. Diversity is an opportunity. » These are the households recognized as “DALO”, for “enforceable right to housing”who will no longer have to be allocated housing in priority neighborhoods of city policy (QPV), said Matignon.
The prefects will also be instructed to stop the creation of new emergency accommodation places, intended for homeless people, in these same neighborhoods. DALO households have a right to housing recognized by the courts and must be given priority in the allocation of social housing. Nearly 35,000 obtained recognition of this right in 2022 and more than 93,000 remain awaiting rehousing despite this recognition, the vast majority in the Paris region.
The measure has already caused a reaction from the left and associations fighting against poor housing: “Punishing DALO priority households because of the riots, what an abysmal contradiction! »for example got carried away on (ex-Twitter) the director of studies of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, Manuel Domergue. “This (illegal!) decision would block their access to a third of the HLM park”, he argued. Deputy François Piquemal (La France insoumise) for his part affirmed what “what would promote social diversity would be rogue mayors who refuse to respect the SRU law [qui a instauré des quotas de logements sociaux par commune] are severely punished and forced to build them.
Other measures announced by the executive
To fight against discrimination in hiring, housing or access to bank loans, the government will also launch “massive testing operations from 2024”, announced the head of government. Testing consists of sending CVs or files of people differentiated only by one point that may be subject to discrimination (skin color, foreign-sounding name, address, etc.) to the same organization. Led by the interministerial delegation for the fight against racism, this policy will aim “ultimately five hundred companies per year”according to Matignon.
Education, a priority according to many elected officials to reduce inequalities between working-class neighborhoods and the rest of the territory, benefits from several measures: the extension of educational cities, where support for students is reinforced, and the guaranteed opening of middle schools from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from the start of the 2024 school year. Libraries will also see their opening hours extended in five hundred neighborhoods, the government promises.
Among the other measures announced by Matignon, a “Quarter Entrepreneurship 2030” program, with 456 million euros over four years, aimed at encouraging the creation of businesses in QPVs. The “Resilient Neighborhoods” program, aimed at greening city policy, will also concern twenty-four additional neighborhoods, with 250 million euros allocated in this direction compared to 100 million previously.
Elisabeth Borne had presented firm measures on Thursday to toughen the response to urban riots. In particular, she announced possible supervision of delinquents by the military, parental responsibility courses and a “new national plan to combat drugs”.
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