Among the orientations of the Ile-de-France development plan debated on Wednesday at the regional council, the “anti-ghetto” clause wanted by the president of the region Valérie Pécresse, which should make it possible “to avoid creating areas of impoverishment”, crystallizes the oppositions.
The new master plan for the Île-de-France region (Sdrif), which must frame the development of the region until 2040 and is binding on local elected officials in their urban plans, must be validated for the first time on Wednesday by the hemicycle sitting in Saint-Ouen. It must then be the subject of a public inquiry, with the State having a right of scrutiny, before being adopted in its final version during 2024.
The regional prefecture has already expressed several reservations, in particular with regard to the “anti-ghetto” clause aimed at curbing the production of social housing in the municipalities which already have at least 30% of it. The application of this principle “would lead to a 21% reduction in the average social (housing) production” compared to recent years and the region has not planned a “strong provision” in the poorly endowed municipalities to compensate, deplores the prefecture in its opinion.
“Beyond 30%, there is no mix”, answers the entourage of Valérie Pécresse who thus wants to avoid “a ghettoization of the districts”. As for the deficient municipalities which do not respect the minimum of 25% imposed by the SRU law, “they have built more social housing than before”, since Valérie Pécresse heads the region, argues her entourage. The communist opposition, which denounces an “anti-social, anti-social housing, anti-right to housing for all” measure, affirms that it will challenge this anti-ghetto clause in court.
Apart from this point, “90% of the requests” from the State on housing have been “integrated”, affirms Jean-Philippe Dugoin-Clément, the regional vice-president in charge of housing and regional planning. The construction of new prisons is another subject of disagreement, the right pushing to build four new establishments, or “the equivalent of 3,000 places”, summarizes the entourage of Valérie Pécresse. But in the event of integration of a measure derogating from the inconstructibility in agricultural zone, demanded by the State in particular to build these prisons, “we are very far from an effective protection of the soil”, deplores France Nature Environnement (FNE ) Ile-de-France.
