The measure aims to promote social diversity. The government will ask prefects to no longer allocate housing in priority neighborhoods to households in greatest difficulty. “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,” announced Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Friday, at the end of the Interministerial Committee of Cities (CIV), held in Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines).
The end of “Dalo” in priority neighborhoods
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 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. Not all Dalo households will be affected by the measure, only the most precarious, the Ministry of Housing was told. They will be granted social housing outside the QPV.
Instructions to prefects
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 a mediation commission or 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 one place. Diversity is an opportunity. It is necessary,” insisted Elisabeth Borne.