About fifteen activists from the Right to Housing (DAL) association deployed tents on the Champs-Elysées in Paris on Friday, a few hundred meters from the Elysée Palace.

Banging on pots and pans, DAL activists want to mark the 15th anniversary of the 2007 Enforceable Right to Housing (Dalo) Act.

They are calling for "the relocation of 152 priority families" to benefit from the Dalo, or some 450 people, according to DAL spokesman Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, indicating that discussions with the State are underway to relocate them.

“We are going to spend the night here and will stay at least until Saturday evening or Sunday morning,” said Mr. Eyraud, Place Clemenceau, under the statue of General de Gaulle.

Housing, a subject "absent from the electoral campaign"

The judge in chambers of the administrative court of Paris suspended the execution of a request from the prefect of police prohibiting this demonstration and condemned the State to pay 1,500 euros to Right to housing Paris, according to a judgment seen by AFP.

DAL activists are allowed to stay on the Champs-Elysées until 8 a.m. Sunday.

“What we regret is that the issue of housing was absent from the electoral campaign.

The issue of purchasing power has been discussed, but housing is the main item of expenditure for the working classes,” said Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, near banners marked with slogans such as “Truce on rents and evictions” and “More people on the street – Everyone on the street”.

The DAL has been organizing a camp on the Place de la Bastille in Paris since March 5, in which some 200 families take part in rotation, according to the DAL spokesperson.

The law establishing the right to enforceable housing (Dalo), voted on March 5, 2007, obliges the State to urgently offer a housing solution to people who are deprived of it or live in precarious situations (threat of eviction without rehousing, substandard housing, etc.).

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