Posted on 01/25/2007 4:11:47 PM PST by Robert357
If last year’s riots Paris riots were horrific, they weren’t surprising. The banlieue, suburbs like St. Denis, Poissy, and Clichy-sous-Bois, are pockets of concentrated immigrant poverty and faceless, block-style building long regarded as tinderboxes for trouble.
Paris has begun building more affordable housing within its borders to reduce social isolation of those outside. Besides offering public-housing tenants an alternative to the banlieue, the move addresses the city’s own growing squatter population, which suffered from a slew of fires in the city’s outer rings at the end of the summer. While approximately eight in 10 lodgings in some peripheral neighborhoods are public, many Paris neighborhoods contain no more than a quarter.
The city has also distributed projects over a much wider area of Paris. Officials from OPAC and other city agencies are working to ensure that all quarters contain 20 percent public housing, and they have announced that all new buildings in wealthier quarters must include at least 25 percent affordable housing in their programs.
While the increase in innovative projects is very encouraging, Aldric Beckmann, a partner at Beckmann-N’Thepe, echoes a popular sentiment when he says that most new public housing is still prosaic and unsophisticated. Architects have more say, but the bureaus are largely composed of bureaucrats and engineers, and practical concerns reign when budgets are low and the margin for error is even lower. While certainly improving, OPAC and other agencies are still not exactly architectural trailblazers.
(Excerpt) Read more at archrecord.construction.com ...
I guess the rioting youth, who were fired up by the local Mosques just needed better housing that reduced "social isolation." How sad that only 25 to 80 percent of the housing is public housing depending on the neighborhood!
And here I thought they would have been more concerned about jobs, controlling radical Moslem Imams, enforcing laws, and assimilating the rioters.
Obviously to some, it’s just a matter of larger windows, more pleasant housing, better neighborhoods, etc. (/sarcasm)
That'll teach em.
The french solution to their public housing problem...build more of 'em.
Why not provide some better automobiles for them to burn? They must be tired of those crappy Peugeots and Citroens. They need some Mercedes and BMWs to torch.
Every catastrophic US mega tenement develope such as Cabrini Green, the NYC blocks was based on his socialist premise. And so it was in France. I don't recall that the bures were burning down their own housing, just municipal and private transportation. Perhaps more Renault for the masses will solve the problem.
They used to call the homeless and the squatters VAGRANTS and they put them in jail or kicked them out of town.
Please let's not badmouth the French when we ourselves flatter Islam by calling it a ROP.
Yes, but at least eveyone will be equal!
True, and we don't provide cars to burn and new tenement housing.
Yeah, more socialist cr*ppy public housing. Yup, that will REALLY inprove things.
/massive sarcasm off
Utter fools.
ping
Cleaing the carpet by spreading the dirt around may not be an effective strategy...
I suppose here in a coupla years we'll see more upscale rioting in France....
A chicken in every pot, a bidet in every boudoir...
Remember to think outside the box.
Works every time.
Hey - I'm pretty pissed of my landlord because he doesn't fix anything so I reckon I am owed a new house. What burns better - lighter fluid or gasoline? Open to any suggestions. The French also named a street after Mummia the cop killing scum so I am not too upset when the riots trash their country.
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