Housing Right
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The French government intends to make housing a legal right — just like health care and education. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin says homeless people, poor workers and isolated women with children should have a legal right to housing by the end of next year. And he wants to extend that right to people in inadequate public housing in the year 2012.
A draft of the legislation — which would make legal redress available to those without housing — is expected by the end of February. An advocacy group called "The Children of Don Quixote" forced the issue last month by setting up dozens of tents across Paris's canal Saint Martin and calling on Parisians to sleep out in the cold.
The group wants the government to open 24-hour-a-day shelters throughout the year and build more public housing.
The French government intends to make housing a legal right — just like health care and education. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin says homeless people, poor workers and isolated women with children should have a legal right to housing by the end of next year. And he wants to extend that right to people in inadequate public housing in the year 2012.
A draft of the legislation — which would make legal redress available to those without housing — is expected by the end of February. An advocacy group called "The Children of Don Quixote" forced the issue last month by setting up dozens of tents across Paris's canal Saint Martin and calling on Parisians to sleep out in the cold.
The group wants the government to open 24-hour-a-day shelters throughout the year and build more public housing.
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