Overview
- Droit au logement, Utopia 56 and the Mouvement des mères isolées gathered near the Alma-Marceau metro in the 8th arrondissement to press for urgent action on homelessness.
- The groups demand use of the 1946 requisition law to temporarily allocate vacant properties to people without housing with compensation paid to owners.
- DAL cites INSEE data and alleges about a dozen buildings in the Triangle d’Or have stood empty for years, pointing to sites on rue de La Trémoille linked to La foncière du Triangle d’Or, which owes hundreds of millions of euros to the state.
- Organizers recall the last visible use of the law in 1995, when just under 1,000 dwellings from financial and insurance owners were requisitioned.
- In a statement, DAL accuses the Prime Minister of favoring private landlords through recent public and tax aid and calls for mass social-housing construction, while authorities have not announced broad requisitions.