Arthur de Laborde (in Marseille) / Photo credit: GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO / POOL / AFP
This Wednesday marks the last day of Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Marseille. He will chair the Council of Ministers in the morning from the prefecture and will then go to the Old Port. but the Head of State is expected above all on one theme: that of unfit housing in the Marseille city.
For his last day in the Marseille city, Emmanuel Macron should detail the means to fight against unworthy housing. The Head of State will go to a degraded condominium in the east of the city to talk about this housing theme that some present as the main black point of the “Marseille en grand” plan.
However, the envelope dedicated to urban renewal had been doubled from 300 to 650 million euros two years ago. But the Marseille city remains undermined by the problems of unhealthy habitats. It has some 40,000 slums and as many requests for social housing.
An exceptional rescue plan announced
The Head of State must in particular announce an exceptional rescue plan for four private condominiums. Objective: to get these large complexes, which sometimes have several thousand inhabitants, out of the infernal spiral. Namely, poverty, unpaid charges, degradation, and the presence of drug trafficking networks and slum landlords.
This plan should allow the public authorities to expropriate or buy back more easily to destroy or renovate, but also to finance work in the common areas and to better take charge of security issues.