Dive into the France of individual houses

2021-11-12T16:50:21.560Z

REPORT - Vilified by the Minister of Housing Emmanuelle Wargon, who advocates “happy density”, this housing model nevertheless appeals to all social layers. Since the pandemic and the successive confinements, the French, on the contrary, are betting everything on the development of their ...

In Fouras (Charente-Maritime)

What if the future was in

“happy density”

? What if

“the model of the single-family house with a garden”

was

“outdated”

today

? It is

"ecological, economic and social nonsense,"

asserted the Minister of Housing a few weeks ago. Emmanuelle Wargon may have returned to her remarks, the French, 75% of whom aspire to move into a detached house, see their dream "deconstructed" with great blows of ecological injunctions:

"zero artificialization of soils", "a living environment denser ”,

or even a

“ new culture of collective housing ”

. According to Emmanuelle Wargon, it was a criticism

"The model of town planning of the 1960s and 1970s which led to the proliferation of housing estates on the outskirts of towns all over France"

“A call to imagine the city and town planning of tomorrow,” she

explains.

But two years ago already, his predecessor, Julien Denormandie,

"assumed"

"discourage the construction of houses"

, in favor of

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