The Government plans to proceed in two stages

The enforceable right to the housing was so far, "in the air", according to the formula of Dominique de Villepin. Today, "landing". Three days after the injunction of Jacques Chirac and then the fixed sans-domicile protest movement growing, the Prime Minister unveiled yesterday, the broad outlines of the Bill for the creation of a right against housing on French soil. The Government plans to proceed in two stages. By the end of the year 2008, the sans-domicile fixed, poor workers and women with children, i.e. persons who are "in the most difficult situations", must be able to seek redress. End of 2008, it is "time to ensure that all concerned will benefit many worthy housing", said Dominique de Villepin. Should however until 1 January 2012 all of underhoused can enforce this new law.

Application complex

The text establishing the "legal principle" of the enforceable right to the housing, which is to "provide social housing for people who do not have sufficient resources in our society", will be presented to the Council of Ministers as early as January 17. It must then be integrated with the text "in respect of various provisions of social order", which the examination is scheduled on January 25 in the Senate and the Assembly on February 20 (three days before the end of the parliamentary session). The Government Bill provides that the State will be the "guarantor" of respect for the right against. A solution that "avoid making a new burden on local communities which would have led to new transfers of charges", argued Dominique de Villepin. Matignon takes care not to force: the implementation of this right will be delegated to the local "wishing".

It seems simpler to entitle a person to claim to have housing, on the ground is obviously complex. The report submitted to the Prime Minister by Xavier Emmanuelli, President of the High Committee for the housing of disadvantaged persons, advocates, term of "regionalizing" the Organization of the responsibility. And select public institutions of Intermunicipal Cooperation (EPCI) in the first place. Other issues outstanding, and not least. Who can claim location How to prove his status of mal-logé What credentials make claim to stay in Paris rather than Cergy And what to do if a person refuses to housing

Xavier Emmanuelli now has eight days to give its opinion on the Bill. For years, the founder of the Samu social calls for the establishment of a right against the housing. Yesterday released a new report on this subject to the Prime Minister and already speaks of a "considerable advanced."

Too much abuse

The Prime Minister took advantage of this announcement on social housing to instruct its services to conduct an audit on the use of the emergency shelter resources. In addition, it broke a taboo by launching a mission to study the issues of access to social housing. The Government considers that there is too much abuse and j. anomalous that some people continue to have a social housing while they have more right when, for example, the children have left home. Today, a family retains the right to stay in housing even if its revenues exceed the ceilings subsequently.