[HIGHLIGHTS] The urban planning assistant resigns in Marseille, after revelations about a lack of social housing

Deputy urban planner at Marseille City Hall resigns. City under threat of deficiency procedure in construction of social housing.

Over period 2020-2022, the municipality achieved only 38.2% of its target. More than 40,000 applications for this type of housing are pending in Marseille.. The Marseille Spring, a broad coalition of left and ecologists, had succeeded in June 2020 the mayor LR Jean-Claude Gaudin, whose end of mandate had been marked by the issue of poor housing.