“In our view, this is a serious slippage.” The group of the Communist, Ecologist and Citizen Left has come out against the latest declarations of Valérie Pécresse. Questioned by this group about its “anti-ghetto” system, which plans to limit the number of very social housing in municipalities where their proportion exceeds 30%, the president of the Ile-de-France region indicated that it He acted with this measure to “avoid communitarianism and avoid Islamism”.
This “anti-ghetto” ceiling desired by Valérie Pécresse was adopted in mid-July in the regional development plan and must come into force in 2024. Its “objective is to restore social diversity in working-class neighborhoods”, as well as that “social advancement” and “success in educational establishments”, also justified the former candidate for the presidential election.
The system deemed “illegal” by around sixty elected officials
The measure is part of the Ile-de-France development plan, the region’s master plan (Sdrif), which must govern its development until 2040 and is binding on local elected officials in their town planning plans. “We no longer want a neighborhood deserted by the middle classes and we no longer want a ghetto,” claimed Valérie Pécresse, claiming to achieve “real social diversity everywhere in Ile-de-France.” “In Neuilly? », retorted an elected official from the benches of the left-wing opposition. Neuilly, a town with a wealthy population located west of Paris, had only 6.8% social housing in 2020.
Eight days ago, sixty elected officials from Ile-de-France signed with the president of the Communist Left group, environmentalist and citizen Céline Malisé two letters addressed to the Minister of Housing Patrice Vergriete and to the regional prefect Marc Guillaume to cancel the ceiling, as revealed 20 minutes. At the end of June, the preliminary draft of the Sdrif was rejected by the State because it did not guarantee that it would be able to carry out its housing policy.
The application of the so-called “anti-ghetto” clause, which “slows down the production of social housing” in areas already well endowed, “would lead to a 21% reduction in average social production” compared to recent years, deplored Prefecture.