The Paris council on Tuesday adopted a will prohibiting elected officials from intervening in a social housing request for a relative, following allegations from Le Canard chainé that Rachida Dati placed her family members in HLM.
The Minister of Culture and the mayor of the 7th arrondissement, LR’s candidate for the municipal elections, attempted to prevent the inclusion of this desire, in his opinion, “purely indirect” and “highly accusatory” on the agenda of the Council of Paris, by filing a brief with the administrative court, which dismissed it.
The will submitted by the communist party asks to prohibit elected officials “from intervening in any element related to the request for social housing for members of their families up to the third degree”.
“Frankly I think it’s clear that there’s no need for a vote,” explained Senator Ian Brossat, president of the communist group, who believes transparency in allocations is “crucial in dealing with the social housing shortage”.
“No privileges”
At the Paris Council in October, LR mayor of the 8th arrondissement Jeanne d’Hautesserre made a splash by declaring that the mayor was “on her side” asking her to provide social housing for their family.
Le Canard chainé then asserted that Rachida Dati would take advantage of her elected title to allocate HLM to one of her sisters, which the mayor of the 7th arrondissement denied to the satirical newspaper, confirming that this accommodation was obtained through her employer, Veolia.
“No privileges are acceptable, especially in the context of the housing crisis in Paris”, according to the will adopted by the city’s left-wing majority.
He pointed to “the almost impossible access to social housing in the western districts of the capital, due to the lack of social housing and the systematic resistance of the majority of right-wing elected officials to any projects aimed at developing it”.
The city of Paris implemented a ranking system in 2014 to make attribution more transparent and open up the commission to the public and the opposition, recalled Ian Brossat, former housing deputy to PS Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo.
