Elisabeth Borne asked governors to “no longer allocate or create shelters, placing the most precarious people in neighborhoods where the most hardships are already concentrated.”
The government will ask governors to no longer allocate housing in the region priority neighborhoods Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced on Friday (October 27) that a campaign has been launched for households experiencing the greatest difficulties to promote social diversity. The head of government said at the conclusion of the inter-ministerial meeting: “Therefore, I ask the governors, through the allocation of housing or the creation of shelters, to no longer resettle the most precarious people in neighborhoods where the most hardships are already concentrated.” The Committee of Cities (CIV) was held in Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines).
This CIV, which has been delayed several times, is designed to provide social and structural responses to challenges in working-class neighborhoods, four months after this summer’s riots and the day after the first round of security-related announcements. According to Matignon, these are households recognized as “Dalo”, meaning “viable housing right”, which will no longer need to be allocated housing in priority areas of the city policy (QPV).
Stopping the creation of emergency shelters
Governors will also be instructed to halt the creation of new emergency shelters for homeless people in the same neighborhoods. Dalo households have housing rights recognized by the courts and should be given priority in allocating social housing.
Approximately 35,000 people have received this right in 2022, and more than 93,000 people, the vast majority in the Paris region, are waiting to be rehoused despite this recognition.
“Not all challenges can be lumped together. Diversity is an opportunity. It is necessary,” insisted Elisabeth Borne.
