In Nice Saint-Augustin, 69.5% of households live in HLM (Illustration) -

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  • According to the Abbé Pierre Foundation, it takes around ten years to obtain social housing, one of the longest delays in France.

  • For the Nice metropolis, “16,000 applications are pending” according to Anthony Borré, president of Côte d'Azur Habitat, the main social landlord which manages more than 20,000 housing units.

  • The president of Côte d'Azur Habitat reformed the internal regulations to facilitate eviction procedures in the event of a criminal conviction of a tenant or a person living under his roof.

“For six months, there have been more than 50 eviction procedures, advance Anthony Borré, president of Côte d'Azur Habitat, the main social landlord which manages more than 20,000 homes in the Nice metropolis.

Between 2013 and 2016, there were around forty ”.

In October, a reform of the internal regulations for low-rental housing contracts made it possible to facilitate evictions in the event of criminal convictions of a tenant or a person living under his roof.

An agreement between the public prosecutor's office and the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture was also signed to inform the social landlord about the tenant's legal affairs in order to initiate proceedings.

Double penalty

This new regulation, and in particular the convention which imposes "to keep confidential information and only within the framework of the procedure" raise several questions "ethical and human" for Anaïs Tarone, lawyer at the bar of Nice.

“On the legal side, one may wonder what information is transmitted.

If these are criminal convictions handed down behind closed doors, as is the case for minors, it is problematic in terms of respecting the confidentiality of cases.

It is also if it is a police report under investigation.

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She adds: "One can also wonder if these practices will not trigger drifts?

Are social landlords going to communicate with each other and prevent the rehousing of these people in low-cost housing?

We come to a moral question.

The very principle of a conviction is to serve your sentence and to redeem yourself with society.

With an expulsion, it is a new sanction, sometimes for his whole family.

What will become of these people who are labeled on criminal terms?

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The landlord reassures: “Each situation is analyzed in detail but the responsibility is also that of the parents not to let their child commit such acts.

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Housing, the last resource for families

Zohra Briand has been working for the Right to Housing 06 (Dal) association for ten years.

She says, "a roof is a right, it is the law".

“We will stand alongside the people who want it.

For years, relations with institutions have deteriorated, as have the situations of our most precarious fellow citizens.

Our only battleground has become that of justice.

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She specifies: “Of all the cases that we defend, there is not one that concerns unpaid rents.

Politicians need to understand that housing is a family's last resource.

People pay their rent first and then think about how they're going to eat.

I suggest that we first think of prevention rather than punishment, especially in this health context, where we will only add people in precarious situations and poverty to the millions that already exist.

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Drug trafficking in the sights

It is to respond to this request that Anthony Borré justifies these decisions.

“More than 16,000 cases are pending today.

These people have the right to think that it is abnormal for delinquents to have accommodation and not them.

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But it is above all "drug traffickers" who are targeted.

The elected representative explains: “There is a silent minority who live in these places and who can no longer take it.

It is necessary that delinquents are out of these quarters.

But where to go?

The president of Côte d'Azur Habitat replies: “As a social landlord, it is not my responsibility to offer them something else.

I also wish they would not have access to social housing for five years.

We cannot deal with those who sell drugs.

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Decisions that have taken too long to be taken according to Philippe Vardon of the National Rally.

“Faced with such a situation, I would not have taken thirteen years [Christian Estrosi has been the mayor of Nice since 2008] to sign such a document allowing the eviction of offenders from social housing.

No, I would only have taken 13 days!

Politics is a matter of priority.

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The lawyer concludes: “In all cases, we can refer to the courts which will be the safeguard in certain situations.

The eviction procedure involves entering a protection litigation judge with evidence for the termination of the lease.

I doubt that a handrail is sufficient.

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  • Expulsion

  • Justice

  • Nice

  • Social housing

  • Poverty

  • French Riviera