Demonstrators march in Paris to demand the requisition of empty housing
Nearly 350 people marched in the streets of Paris this Saturday, January 2 to demand the requisition of empty housing in France.
AFP - SAMEER AL-DOUMY
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About 350 people demonstrated this Saturday, January 2 in Paris at the appeal of the Right to Housing association (DAL) to ask the government to requisition seven empty buildings in the capital.
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Under the banners "A roof is a right" or "Empty housing, full streets", several members of associations, like Attac, or of the party Europe Ecology the Greens (EELV), participated in this event organized by
the Law housing
which launched itself before the Ministry of Housing.
"
Nothing prevents the government from applying the requisition law
," explained DAL spokesperson Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, deploring the lack of responses to the 412 requisition requests for seven empty Parisian buildings filed on December 11.
Three million vacant homes in France
The demonstration passed in front of three of them, located in the center of Paris: former premises of the French Documentation, quai Voltaire (7th arrondissement), a building on Boulevard Haussmann bought by BNP Paribas and a building facing at Saint-Lazare station where the walk ended in peace.
As of January 1, 2020, nearly 3 million homes were considered vacant by INSEE, i.e. 8.3% of homes in mainland France.
A 1945 ordinance allows the State to requisition these dwellings to urgently house homeless people in exchange for an occupancy allowance, for a maximum renewable period of one year.
(With AFP)
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