Neighborhoods, social housing: the plan of Manuel Valls – Le Point

Prime Minister Manuel Valls presented Friday measures to neighborhoods. Their cost represents “around one billion euros.” But it is not just another “new plan” or “Marshall Plan” for the French suburbs, insisted Manuel Valls. It billion does not include some measures related to the school and access to employment presented Friday, according to the Prime Minister, who said he would not insist on the numbers, “even if they exist “.

Manuel Valls presented Friday priority measures to build social housing outside areas counting already a lot, especially in cities that do not meet the requirements of the law SRU . Prefects will in particular make proposals before the month of June 2015 for the production of social housing in municipalities not complying with legal obligations by issuing necessary construction permits, according to the government plan folder “Equality and Citizenship” presented at a press conference by the Prime Minister. Conversely, “instructions will be given to the prefects to limit the construction of social housing in 1500 priority neighborhoods of urban policy when social housing rate will exceed 50%,” said Matignon. Moreover, not recreate ghettos, destroyed housing will be rebuilt primarily outside sensitive areas.

“Stop adding poverty to poverty”

An interministerial delegate Thierry Repentin, will be appointed to coordinate this process, said Manuel Valls. Another important measure: the poorest beneficiaries of the right to housing (DALO) will no longer be offered housing in 1500 the poorest neighborhoods in France. Manuel Valls asked the prefects “not to relocate in the priority areas of the policy of the City people whose income is below the poverty line,” said he told reporters. “We must stop adding poverty to poverty,” argued the Prime Minister.

On the front of the school, the Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem announced the advancement of teachers will be “easy” for teachers spent in the neighborhoods. Not Furthermore, the objective is to reach, by 2017, to educate 50% of children under 3 years in the ultra-priority education zones, with 800 jobs to the key, the minister said.