In Paris, a “priority” family for rehousing has been waiting for fourteen years

The Paris administrative court ordered the State to pay 11,000 euros in compensation to a family whose rehousing had been declared “priority” in 2009 by the mediation commission for the Right to Opposable Housing (DALO) of the city of Paris… but which has still not been executed fourteen years later.

The Paris police headquarters remains deaf despite the judgment
The applicant, for her part, estimated her damages at 347,500 euros: she had received “no offer of accommodation” despite the steps she had taken when she was accommodated “with a third of her family” with her four children. .

The recognition of the “priority” nature of his request for rehousing in 2009 was also followed ten years later, in 2019, by a conviction by the same administrative court in Paris: he had “enjoined” the Paris Police Prefecture to rehouse the person concerned and her family with a penalty of “500 euros per month of delay” from March 1, 2020.

But “the prefect did not offer the person concerned rehousing within the six-month period” set by the construction and housing code, nor did he “execute the judgment ordering him to ensure the rehousing of the person concerned.” “interested”, note the Parisian judges in a new decision dated September 11, 2023 which has just been made public.

The family is housed in a residential and rehabilitation center
However, “when a person has been recognized as a priority and must be (…) urgently rehoused (…), the State’s culpable failure to execute this decision within the allotted time engages its responsibility with regard to the applicant alone in respect of disturbances in living conditions,” recall the magistrates.

“These problems must be assessed based on the housing conditions that have persisted (…), the duration of this deficiency and the number of people in the household,” they explain.

In this case, for this “double failure” of the State which “constitutes a fault of a nature to engage its liability”, the judges therefore found that a “fair assessment” of the family’s damages falls to it. allocate 11,000 euros: the family has been housed since August 2018 “in an accommodation and rehabilitation center”.

The Île-de-France regional prefecture, to which the request had been communicated by the court, had “not presented any observations”.

This article is originally published on actu.fr