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, 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).
“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”, 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.
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