This is one of the major ongoing projects of the Ministry of the City, and it raises many questions from elected officials. The overhaul of the priority geography, which defines the priority districts of the city policy (QPV), was launched in May in view of the new city contracts, called “2030 neighborhood commitments”, which should be signed by 1er January 2024. “Prefects have been equipped with updated INSEE maps and data to discuss with local elected officials and redraw the map of priority neighborhoods with flexibility”, indicates the office of the Minister of Housing and the City, Olivier Klein. This mapping should be refined “until midsummer” for a presentation of the new priority geography at the start of the school year.
Promised for several months, this update was eagerly awaited by elected officials. Especially since the current map of the 1,514 priority neighborhoods for urban policy (1,296 in mainland France, 218 in the overseas departments, Saint-Martin and French Polynesia), dates from 2014 and had was developed using per capita income data from 2011.
The new map will still be part of the Lamy law – named after the former Minister for the City (2012-2014) François Lamy – which defined the criteria for identifying priority neighborhoods in 2014: a minimum size of the neighborhood – 1,000 inhabitants in an urban unit of at least 10,000 inhabitants – and a concentration of poverty, defined by the dropout, on the one hand, in relation to the incomes of the agglomeration in which the neighborhood is located and, on the other hand, on the other hand, compared to the income of mainland France.
“crowding out effect”
For their part, the elected representatives of the suburbs are worried about seeing this new mapping remove their QPV or, conversely, not taking into account a sensitive area on their territory. For the time being, no clear and quantified indication on the future zoning has been communicated to them. However, according to several sources working on the device, we should not expect a revolution. “It’s not a new priority geography, it’s simply an update of the old one”blows a city policy official.
The few changes to be expected are not surprising Valérie Létard, senator (Centrist Union) from the North, who worked on an information report on city policy, submitted in July 2022. “These neighborhoods are airlocks for the inhabitants with a very strong renewal of populations, often replaced by people who are just as, or even more, precarious. These are therefore the same territories, but not necessarily the same audiences.details the chosen one.
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