38 had been signed and published. The pace of implementation clearly increased in 2004, a trend which should continue in 2006 and 2007. As at the end of 2005, 18% of the camp facilities provided for in département plans had been set up, and 25% of the places had benefited from state subsidies (70% of the investment). As a large part of this population has limited means, their situation is sometimes very difficult, as is the case when they settle on rented or purchased sites in locations where planning permission cannot be obtained, or sites where their presence is unauthorised. 142. Generally speaking, settled households’ housing needs, like those of any household of limited means, are a matter for the département’s housing action plan for the disadvantaged (PDALPD). 143. Nevertheless, at the same time as facilities for itinerants have been set up, funding has been provided for local authorities to set up family plots for rent, so that these families can opt either for a type of housing offering conditions similar to those of the itinerant lifestyle or for more conventional housing. Furthermore, recourse to the funding of special social housing under ordinary law enables mixed housing (permanent buildings alongside caravans) to be created. These solutions make it easier for those wishing to do so to make the change from itinerant homes to conventional housing. 144. It nevertheless happens that the fact that families have, in practice, been settled for many years on plots not destined for such use complicates the task of creating appropriate housing, given the increasing constraints imposed by the rapid development of urban areas. This applies to the case of both the families settled in what is referred to as the Trou Poulet wood in the municipality of Herblay, in the département of Val d’Oise, and the families in the municipality of Kaltenhouse, in the département of Bas-Rhin. 145. When such situations are identified, local solutions are sought, with central government support, but implementation may prove very difficult, especially because of the unlawful nature of the occupation of the plots, the problem of finding answers compatible with households’ means, or the scarcity of land in certain residential areas. In practice, while département plans provide for the compulsory establishment of sites to house itinerant travellers, settled populations come under ordinary housing law. 146. In the face of these difficulties, the Government wished to involve travellers themselves in the search for solutions. The competent Minister set up a national consultative committee on travellers on 14 March 2006 and asked it to come up with proposals for improving their integration into the national community. 147. One of the known facts where housing is concerned is the inadequate link between département plans for facilities for itinerants and département housing action plans for the disadvantaged. Proposals are being studied with a view to strengthening this link and promoting an overall policy.