The Metropolitan Council of Nice Côte d’Azur has just adopted the draft Local Housing Plan.
This plan, once again, is largely focused on residential constructions for high and very high incomes, and on tourist or secondary residences.
For the rest, that is to say, the tens of thousands of households struggling to find decent housing or who are dedicating 25% to up to 40% of their income, Mrs. Estrosi-Sassone once again responds with the bare minimum.
However, the figures announced, as with previous Local Housing Plans, will not even be reached. The assessment, from this point of view, is catastrophic. Just in the city of Nice, between 2001 and 2015, the rate of social housing has evolved very slowly. Too slowly. (2001: 10.37%, 2004: 10.97%, 2007: 11.43%, 2010: 11.80%, 2015: 12.67%)
At this pace, it will take until 2062 to reach 20% and 2100 to reach 25%!
The arguments presented by Mrs. Estrosi-Sassone are always the same: with issues, including land, “the objectives of the SRU law are unattainable, unsuitable, unrealistic…”
And yet, there are cities, including major ones (Paris…), that present better records in terms of social housing, with the same land issues.
But in Nice, there is an unwritten rule aimed at establishing a genuine urban segregation, pushing less affluent populations further away from a city center where they can no longer hope to find housing.
by Paul Injey, PCF
