2024-01-02 22:27:05
It was a highly anticipated update, postponed many times, but now official. According to a decree published on December 28 in Official newspaper and entered into force on January 1, mainland France now has 1,362 sites classified as priority districts of city policy (QPV).
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One hundred and eleven districts join this new list, while forty leave it. Among the existing QPVs, 960 have also seen their perimeters evolve, with 291 remaining unchanged. The update of the QPVs in the overseas territories, which currently have just over 200, will take place during the year 2024 for entry into force in 2025.
This modification is the first since the Lamy law in 2014. Discussions were launched at the beginning of the summer, in particular between local elected officials and equal opportunities prefects, to define this overhaul of priority geography. The choice of neighborhoods has met two identical criteria since 2014: a minimum size of the neighborhood – 1,000 inhabitants in an urban unit of at least 10,000 inhabitants – and a concentration of poverty.
“This decree is the culmination of a process of fruitful exchange between state services and local elected officials. Our desire was to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and to have zoning as close as possible to the realities of each territory”welcomed the Secretary of State for the city, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, in a press release on Friday.
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This new priority geography map now concerns all departments, with the creation of a QPV in Mende, in Lozère. The occasion of “strengthen social diversity” in the Fontanilles district, according to Laurent Suau, mayor of the city (close to the presidential majority, ex-PS). This label will above all provide access to more financing, in addition to tax advantages, particularly for social landlords who benefit from a 30% exemption on the property tax on built properties (TFPB).
“This will allow us to have new neighborhood mediators and strengthen our social center. A grocery store will reopen in the spring and we hope that this dynamic will facilitate the installation of a doctor in the neighborhood”Liste Laurent Suau. “All this is going in the right direction to allow the right development that our territory needs”he concludes.
In Lannion (Côtes-d’Armor), Mayor Paul Le Bihan says he “very relieved” to maintain its two priority districts. Both sites were now, unlike in 2014, slightly below 1,000 inhabitants. “We carried out work on the ground to bring back to the initial perimeter the streets which may have been forgotten in the first zoning and ensure that these neighborhoods remain eligible for city policy”, explains the elected socialist. When taking stock of the last ten years, the mayor praises “a real dynamic that is bearing fruit” thanks to public aid. The poverty rate in the two neighborhoods has nevertheless remained stable in recent years, at around 42%.
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