On September 23, Valérie Létard, just appointed Minister of Housing and Urban Renewal, on the steps of the Hôtel de Roquelaure, delivered her handover speech and followed in the footsteps of her mentor Jean-Louis Borloo, former Minister of the City and father of the National Agency for Urban Renovation, also from Valenciennes.
Speech in which there is a question of housing, but no urban policy… Forgetting or clumsiness? Elected officials and associations, who expected the least has a State Secretariat, fear a clear and frank disappearance of the social aspect of this policy.
The suburban mayors, “revolted”, assure that “this suppression marks a new turning point in the contempt displayed by the successive governments of Emmanuel Macron towards working-class neighborhoods”. This disappearance, more than symbolic for 6 million inhabitants, is a strong signal of an assumed political choice, according to them, that of a rallying to the idea of a policy that is too expensive and ineffective, and therefore to the theses of part of the right and the extreme right. Faced with the revolt, a press release published in mid-October ensures that this policy is indeed linked to this full-time ministry… but the damage is done.
Since its creation in 1990, city policy has rarely been suspended. But it has regularly been castigated for its largely building and urban planning, even security, vision.
In Alfortville this Sunday, the last three towers of the city of Alouettes were dynamited. A piece of history and common heritage that tells the story of the transformations of our cities.
How do the inhabitants of large complexes experience this destruction? Do these urban renovations improve the diversity of sensitive neighborhoods? Does the building have consequences on the trajectory of these inhabitants?
Can we transform the suburbs without a minister?
To go further:
The references of Popular neighborhoods. Undoing the myth of the ghettowork by Pierre Gilbert published by Amsterdam Editions (2024).
The references of History of the suburbs, by Thibault Tellier, published by Perrin, 2024.
The references of The child of Courneuve, by Thiubault Tellier, published by Michalon, 2024.
With the absence of a dedicated ministry, urban policy risks seeing its social aspect disappeararticle published in Le Monde.
Alfortville: with the lightning strike of the last Alouettes towers, a page continues to turn in Île-de-Francearticle published in Le Parisien.
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