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Grenoble Mayor Reaffirms Neighborhood Social Housing Quotas

He plans to leverage the city’s local urbanism plan to impose varied quotas designed to dismantle wealthy enclaves.

Eric Piolle, maire Les Ecologistes de Grenoble, à Paris, le 9 février 2023.
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Overview

  • On August 6, Éric Piolle told RTL he will set social housing rates by neighborhood, requiring 45% affordable units in areas with under 5% existing social housing and 30% citywide.
  • The mayor said the municipal plan local d’urbanisme (PLU) will make these differentiated quotas binding for all new development projects.
  • The initiative builds on Grenoble’s 2024 achievement of the 25% SRU law threshold and aims to promote social mixing by directing more affordable housing into affluent districts.
  • Former mayor Alain Carignon condemned Piolle’s “casser les ghettos de riches” phrase as “indecent” and accused the current administration of ghettoizing working-class areas like Villeneuve.
  • Some residents welcomed greater diversity while others questioned feasibility given limited available land and warned the policy risks becoming ideological.