“There is nothing to rent or it is too expensive”: slingshot in Douarnenez, a Breton town in need of housing

2023-06-09 19:16:55

“Neither closed shutters nor golden ghetto”. The giant banner of the Right to the City and DouarnVendez collectives is already ready for Saturday’s demonstration in Douarnenez (Finistère). The choice of the sardine city, as the epicenter of the protest against the difficulty of finding accommodation in Brittany, is not trivial. For more than 20 years, long before the real estate crisis born of the pandemic, this small working-class coastal town of 14,000 souls, which today lives from its sardine cannery (Chancerelle), its fishing port and its agri-food activity , suffers from a severe lack of housing.