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 this Friday, October 27. “I therefore ask the prefects to no longer settle, through the allocation of housing or the creation of accommodation places, the most precarious people in the neighborhoods which already concentrate the most difficulties,” declared the head of government at the from the Interministerial Committee of Cities (CIV)held in Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines).
This CIV, postponed several times, was designed to provide social and structural responses to the difficulties of working-class neighborhoods, four months after this summer’s riots and the day after a first round of rather security-related announcements.
These are the households recognized as “Dalo”, for “enforceable right to housing”, which will no longer have to be allocated housing in the priority districts of the city policy (QPV), specified 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. “All the difficulties cannot be gathered in the same place. Diversity is an opportunity. It is necessary,” insisted Elisabeth Borne.
The Prime Minister met, during this CIV, elected officials in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, a popular commune in Yvelines where half of the inhabitants live in a priority district, but spared from the urban violence triggered at the beginning of the summer by the death of young Nahel, killed by a police officer during a traffic stop. But the city experienced riots in 2019, which resulted in the destruction of a marquee.