Because too many citizens in difficulty find themselves sleeping outside, the law of March 5, 2007 established the right to enforceable housing, or Dalo.
The objective: to allow those left behind to have recourse against the State to find a lasting accommodation solution.
A large audience targeted a priori
Anyone whose application for social housing is unusually long or who is homeless, threatened with eviction without rehousing, accommodated in a temporary structure or even housed in premises unfit for habitation or indecent can assert their right to enforceable housing. .
If you meet the conditions of resources imposed by the social housing, you can contact the mediation committee of your department using a specific form to download online from Service-public.fr or to collect at the prefecture.
Various associations such as Emmaüs Solidarité, the Abbé-Pierre Foundation or the Red Cross can support you in this process.
A complex procedure
The commission must render its decision within three months of receiving your file, and up to six months in Ile-de-France.
When it considers that your request is a priority (criteria of health, size and composition of the household, place of work, etc.), it sends the file to the prefecture, which must then offer you accommodation adapted to your needs in the three months, compared to another six months in Île-de-France.
In the opposite case, you have two months to contest the grounds for rejecting your request by letter addressed to the secretariat of the commission or by seizing the administrative court.
You can also appeal to the administrative judge if the prefecture has not respected the deadlines or if its proposal is not suitable.
Always flaws
Almost fifteen years after its creation, the Dalo system still suffers from its lack of effectiveness.
While 304,514 families were recognized as priorities for access to housing between 2007 and 2019, only 189,774 actually obtained a roof through this means, according to figures from the High Committee for Housing for Underprivileged People.
Worse, the number of Dalo remedies increased in 2018 and 2019, as did the number of households to be relocated.
More generally, the system suffers from the low supply of accommodation.
According to the 2020 report of the monitoring committee, more than 71,000 households have still been waiting to be relocated for one to eleven years.
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