French Activists Urge Macron & Le Pen To Address Housing Crisis

On Tuesday, France's Housing Rights Association (DAL) members took to the streets of Paris to demand that presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen propose policies to fight the national housing crisis in their political campaigns.

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 “Although the 2007 Right to opposable housing law help vulnerable citizens to afford rent, some 300,000 people are homeless in our country,” the DAL spokesperson Jean-Baptiste Eyraud said, stressing that housing currently represents about 60 percent of working citizens’ expenses.

While the demonstrations took place, Eyraud met Macron’s party La Republique En Marche! militants to agree on possible strategies to counteract this situation, such as the requisition of vacant dwellings, the incorporation of the right to housing in the Constitution, and the building of 300,000 shelters.

Both parts, however, did not reach any formal agreement. “We urgently need to implement actions in this regard since this crisis is disrespecting the fundamental rights of our people,” the DAL spokesperson highlighted.