40 153. The Committee notes that a 2005 report by the Conseil National de l’Habitat (CNH) (National Council for Housing) on the “Fight against discrimination in access to housing” confirms that the great majority, if not all, discriminatory practices on access to housing are based on nationality or origin of applicants (the name, or racial/ethnic features of the applicant being decisive factors for a refusal). The Committee furthermore notes from another source that there have been a number of cases of eviction of Roma in which the response of the French authorities has been alleged to be not in conformity with human rights standards, namely the clearing of around 600 Roma gypsies from a shantytown where they had been living for more than a year in the north Paris suburb of Saint-Denis in September 2007. The source indicates that the families were moved in a "very brutal way", at least 400 of them had disappeared and would probably resurface in other shanties north of Paris with no electricity or water. 154. In general, the Committee observes that the Government has not provided any substantial counter arguments to the complainant organisation’s analysis and that its own submissions often contain a certain number of arguments which point to the inability or persisting failure of the local authorities to redress the problems that exist in respect of the housing of Traveller groups. Despite the efforts of central and local authorities in this area and the positive results that have been achieved at times, there appears to have been a long period during which local authorities and the State have failed to take into account to a sufficient degree the specific needs of the Roma/Traveller community. 155. The Committee therefore holds that the deficient implementation of legislation on stopping places for Travellers constitutes a violation of Article 31§3 of the Revised Charter in conjunction with Article E. FOURTH PART : ON THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 16 OF THE REVISED CHARTER, ALONE OR TAKEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH ARTICLE E OF THE REVISED CHARTER 156. Article 16 of the revised European Social Charter reads as follows: “Part I: The family has a fundamental unit of society has the right to appropriate social, legal and economic protection to ensure its full development” “ Part II: With a view to ensuring the necessary conditions for the full development of the family, which is a fundamental unit of society, the Parties undertake to promote the economic, legal and social protection of family life by such means as social and family benefits, fiscal arrangements, provision of family housing, benefits for the newly married and other appropriate means.” 157. Article E of the Charter reads as follows: “The enjoyment of the rights set forth in this Charter shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national extraction or social origin, health, association with a national minority, birth or other status.”