Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
If we are to understand what needs to be done in French housing and urban policy, we must see these riots for what they are, which means also distinguishing them from what they are not. < ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o />
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They are not a replay of France’s uprising of 1968 [...]
After the riots, what’s it going to be then?
Where I lived was with my dadda and mum in the flats of Municipal Flatblock 18A, between Kingsley Avenue and Wilsonsway. I got to the big main door with no trouble, through I did pass one young malchick sprawling and creeching and moaning in the gutter, all [...]
Sooner or later, slums always explode.
They may slumber for months, years, even decades, but always — always — they go up in flames.
I wish this were not so, but it is.
Paris, November, 2005
Something awful is happening in Paris, and I fear this may only the beginning. As the Washington Post describes it:
PARIS, Nov. [...]
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