France owns a quarter of the 21 million social housing units in the European Union. Despite everything, supply never catches up with demand, and you sometimes have to wait 10 years to benefit from it.

This, for a budget dedicated by the State to housing policy of more than 38 billion euros. Former prefect Michel Aubouin highlights in a note the large proportion of foreign population who occupy social housing in France. HLMs would no longer fulfill their original promise to the most deprived. The diagnosis… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 79% left to discover.