In Marseille, tenants of a residence worried by the appearance of huge cracks in their apartments. Starting in the 2000s, several cracks appeared on "several buildings" These cracks have since been filled with resin injections.
Recently, while work to rehabilitate housing ready to be re-let had just been carried out, new, more discreet cracks appeared. According to the social landlord in charge of the Michelis city, 13 Habitat, the nature of the soil on which the residence rests, clay, is in question.