The debate on the requisition of vacant housing relaunched by a invoice | EUROtoday

Times are altering. In 1947, the State had requisitioned 88,000 housing models, on the premise of the order taken two years earlier by the provisional authorities of General de Gaulle. Between 1995 and 1997, after the occupation by the Droit au logement affiliation of a constructing on rue du Dragon, in 6^e district of Paris, the President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, had mobilized, on the premise of the identical textual content, a thousand flats to quickly accommodate folks on the road. Since then, a brand new process has been created by a 1998 regulation, and the housing disaster and homelessness have worsened. But regardless of requires requisitions launched by mayors, by deputies in addition to by the principle associations for the protection of poorly housed folks, no large-scale operation has taken place in recent times.

The authorities additionally doesn’t intend to assist a invoice from the environmental group aimed toward authorizing mayors to requisition beneath the identical circumstances as prefects, which should be examined on Thursday February 12 by the National Assembly. “The requisition of housing is not effective, it is very costly and a fundamental attack on the right to property”justifies the Minister of Housing, Vincent Jeanbrun, in a written response to Worldearlier than pinging: “It is a disgrace that those that need to present extra assets for lodging in our nation refused to vote on the funds during which 110 million euros extra have been supplied for emergency lodging, or hundreds of further locations. »

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