Tenant expulsions without relocation solution have multiplied since summer

The pace of execution of the judgments by the public force remains low, compared to the period of the pre-the health crisis. But operations do not meet all government instructions.

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The summer period is the most feared of the tenants under a judgment of expulsion, as public officials and private persons request the prefects at that time to obtain the execution of the judgments by the public force. The pace of the evictions increases at the end of the school year – allegedly to avoid a disruption of children’s schooling – and then approaching the November 1, date of the early winter truce , which suspends them until March 31 of the following year.

According to the figures communicated to the associations by the interdepartmental management for accommodation and access to housing, there were only 6,600 expulsions by the public force between the 1 er June and September 30, 2021. The total should reach 8,000 October 31. It is twice as much as in 2019 (16,700 evictions), but twice as much as in 2020 (3,500). Covid-19 helping, the truce had, in 2020, been maintained well beyond winter until July 10, then, in 2021 until 31 May.

“It must be recognized that there has been an effort on the part of the Government, which addressed an additional € 20 million the proprietary compensation fund to compensate them of the non-execution of a deportation decision, welcomes Manuel Domergue, in charge of studies at the Foundation Abbé Pierre. But the prefects have very unequally applied the instruction to never expel without relocation and, when there is a proposal, it is, the More often, a few nights of hotel at the other end of the department “,” he regrets.

“Between hotels and family”

Philippe P. is still in the shock of what he lived on October 18th. At 9 o’clock in the morning, a bailiff, flanked by a police commissioner and a locksmith, asked himself and his parents, aged 72 and 82, to leave the apartment of Taverny (Val -D’Oet), ownership of the social lessor CDC Habitat. “In front of us, the usher phoned the town hall to know if a relocation was planned, tells this 35-year-old man, who accumulated a debt vis-à-vis his landlord. Since this was not the case, We had only the time to pick up a few cases to refuge at my sister, who lives in a studio of 28 square meters, where we live. “Contacted, the landlord says studying a relocation solution for the parents of Philippe P.

“In the Ministry’s statistics, such an expulsion is recognized as if it had a” relocation solution “. But live four or five in a studio is not a solution,” Storm Marie Rothhahn, responsible, for The Foundation Abbé Pierre, the Allô prevention platform expulsion.

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