My council house is falling down | France 2 | Envoyé Spécial

Two years ago Jean-Louis Borloo announced that 120,000 public housing units would be built each year. Since then, all over France, as part of new programs, new public housing has been built. Attractive material, fine architecture, limited-rise buildings. But we don’t see the wood for the trees: the public housing stock is in very bad condition.France has 4 million public housing units, that’s 16% of the national total, 25% of the total in Isle de France. A housing stock that has doubled since 1974. Public housing that costs the State nearly 25 billion euros a year. Public housing whose primary purpose is social: to allow lower income families to have housing and to promote social mix.And yet there is massive degradation, a failure of urban renewal, rising rents in the new buildings, preferential treatment. Public housing is a concentration of all that is wrong with housing in France today: public housing is in crisis.What is the condition of the current public housing stock? Why does public housing no longer fulfil its role? What answers are provided by the State and the public landlords?Why is public housing in crisis? What are the scandalous consequences of this crisis?