17 accommodation must be located. They shall also set deadlines within which letting agencies are required to house applicants. Any such housing allocated shall be offset against the reservation rights of the State representatives in the départements. […] State representatives shall supply persons who receive offers of housing with written information on the social support facilities and arrangements in the département concerned. Should letting agencies refuse to house applicants, the State representative in the département concerned shall allocate accommodation corresponding to their needs from his or her reservation rights. […] III. References may also be made to mediation committees without any qualifying period by persons who have received no suitable offers in response to their applications for one of various forms of short-term or transitional housing, hostel or hotel-type accommodation for social purposes. […] IV. When an application for accommodation is referred to a mediation committee under the conditions specified in II and it considers that the application is a priority but that the offer of accommodation is not suitable, it shall transmit the application to the State representative in the département concerned and the applicant shall be offered accommodation in a form of short-term or transitional housing, hostel or hotel-type accommodation for social purposes. […]” “Article L.441-2-3-1 (inserted pursuant to Act No. 2007-290 of 5 March 2007): I. Applicants who are recognised by a mediation committee as being priorities and requiring emergency accommodation, and have not received, within a period specified in a decree, an offer of housing that has regard to their needs and their abilities may apply to the administrative court for an order that they be housed or rehoused. Applicants may be assisted by an association whose objectives include the integration or housing of disadvantaged persons or an association that defends the socially excluded and that is recognised by the State representative in the département. From 1 December 2008 this remedy shall be available to persons specified in the second paragraph of II of Article L. 441-2-3 and, from 1 January 2012, to those specified in the first paragraph. In the absence of a mediation committee in the département concerned, applicants may exercise the remedy specified in the previous paragraph if, after referring the matter to the State representative in the département, they have not received an offer of housing that has regard to their needs and their abilities within a period specified in law. The president of the administrative court concerned or a judge nominated by him or her shall rule on the matter under the urgent procedure within two months of referral. Unless the case is heard by a bench of judges, the hearing shall take place without the submissions of the government law officer. If the president of the administrative court or the judge nominated by him or her finds that the mediation committee has recognised the application as a priority that requires an urgent response and that the applicants have not received an offer of housing that has regard to their needs and their abilities, he or she shall order the applicants’ housing or rehousing by the State, and may order a penalty for failure to comply. The proceeds of such fines shall be paid into the funds specified in the last paragraph of Article L. 302-7 in the region of the mediation committee concerned. II. Applicants who are recognised by a mediation committee as being priorities for accommodation in a form of short-term or transitional housing, hostel or hoteltype accommodation for social purposes and have not been accommodated, within a period specified in a decree, in such a facility may apply to the administrative court for an order that they be found a place in such a facility. This remedy shall be available from 1 December 2008. […]