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“Section 4, as amended by Act 2006-872 of 13 of July 2006 , Section 60 II:
Département plans shall be based on a qualitative and quantitative assessment
of needs in the area concerned and shall take account of the boundaries of any
joint municipal public housing bodies. Plans shall specify the needs arising from
the application of Section 1 and shall distinguish between situations where
individuals’ or families’ difficulties in obtaining or retaining housing arise purely
from financial circumstances and those connected with a combination of financial
circumstances and problems of social integration.
Action plans shall give priority to persons and families who are completely
homeless, at risk of eviction without rehousing, in temporary accommodation,
housed in slums, or unfit, uncertain or improvised homes, or faced with a
combination of difficulties.
Plans shall specify the local bodies responsible for identifying the needs specified
in the first paragraph of this Section and, where appropriate, for implementing all
or part of the relevant plan’s provisions. The geographical jurisdiction of these
bodies must take account of the joint municipal bodies responsible for town
planning and housing established under part 5 of the Local and Regional
Authorities Code.
Plans shall lay down, by geographical sector and having regard to local housing
programmes and “housing basins”, the objectives to be achieved to ensure that
individuals and families concerned by the relevant plan have long-term access to
housing and that there is an adequate social mix in cities, towns and
neighbourhoods. They shall therefore lay down appropriate measures,
concerning:
a. The response to requests for housing from individuals and families concerned
by the relevant plan;
b. The construction or provision of additional dwellings covered by so-called
"social agreements";
c. Principles governing the priority allocation of housing;
d. The prevention of tenant evictions, and accompanying social support. […]
e. The accommodation of persons placed in temporary or transitional dwellings;
f. The contribution of the housing solidarity fund to achieving the objectives of the
plan;
g. The identification of unfit dwellings and premises unsuitable for
accommodation, and action to absorb the corresponding requirements for
rehousing, together with dwellings deemed to be substandard following
inspections by bodies paying housing assistance.”
h) Conditions for the allocation of social housing
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The Building and Housing Code reads:
“Article L.411 (inserted pursuant to Act No. 98-657 of 29 July 1998): The
construction, fitting out, allocation and management of social housing for rent
shall be designed to improve the living conditions of persons on low incomes and
other disadvantaged persons. These operations shall contribute to the
implementation of the right to housing and help to meet the need for social mix in
the towns and neighbourhoods concerned.”
“Article L.441: The allocation of social housing shall contribute to implementing
the right to housing by meeting the needs of those on low incomes and other
disadvantaged persons.
The allocation process must take account of the variety of local demand and the
need for equal opportunities for applicants and social mix in the towns and
neighbourhoods concerned.