"This will totally destroy the harmony of the neighborhood!"
, deplores Arthur *, a resident of rue Boissonade, which partly runs along the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul hospital, in Paris.
This university professor has lived in the street for thirty years, which he chose for its calm and for sentimental reasons: his great-grandmother already ran an art gallery there at the beginning of the 20th century.
"And now on the land next door, high towers of buildings will be built!"
, disfiguring the landscape according to him.
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In this quiet corner of the 14th arrondissement, the neighborhood growls, anger swells.
The transformation project, by the City of Paris, of the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul hospital, closed in 2012 and occupied from 2015 to 2020 by the solidarity village Les Grands Voisins, is creating controversy.
On what is today a vacant lot, strewn with piles of rubble and surrounded by high fences, a new 3.5 hectare real estate complex will stand in 2026, comprising 600 housing units, 50% of which are social, open premises.
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