The market, the best tool for breaking down territorial "apartheid

Manuel Valls' declaration of the existence of "territorial, social and ethnic apartheid" in France raised a key debate: whether public authorities bear their share of responsibility for the existence of urban ghettos. For once, the controversy did not result in a denial or apology, but in public policy measures, presented in early March in the plan La Républiques en actes.

Two main housing measures have been announced:

- Improve the distribution of social housing by giving regional prefects the power to impose the construction of social housing in communes that do not meet the 25% social housing target, and by limiting construction in certain neighborhoods that are already well served.

- Encourage poor families to settle in affluent neighborhoods by lowering rents in certain low-income housing estates and preventing the poorest households from being rehoused in the most difficult neighborhoods.

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