As every year since 2001, the annual report of the Abbé Pierre Foundation presents the bitter observation of the worsening housing crisis. It’s a true cancer, now affecting nearly 4 million people, that is eroding French society.
Poor housing conditions and more generally inequalities in access to housing fuel resentment and social anger, which in turn feed into protests and support for the National Front vote.
According to Patrick Allemand (opposition city councilor for the Socialist Party): “In the Alpes-Maritimes and in Nice, this housing crisis is particularly severe due to the very high deficiency in social housing: barely 11% instead of the required 25%.”
After the assessment, comes action…
“Together with the entire left in Nice, we have tirelessly alerted public authorities to the dangers of this lack of social housing. It is an economically suicidal urban policy. As the Chamber of Commerce and Industry has repeatedly stated, housing prices are now an obstacle to economic development.
More importantly, it is a housing policy that is the exact opposite of the objectives of social diversity and living together. Real estate speculation and poor housing are the two ends of the same liberal thread that weaves a fragmented territory without social cohesion, exacerbating differences and multiplying exclusions,” he stated in a declaration.
