Given the texts that have been ratified, the official positions, and the vote on the law that turned the right to housing justiciable (5 March 2007), who could doubt France’s commitment to guarantee the right to housing? However, the expectations of the right to housing persist and cover many situations: situations of occupation without legal protection, overcrowding, indecent lodgings unworthy of human habitation, people relegated to campgrounds, slums, lodgings in hotels and in group homes, people living in the street…
France has signed the major texts adopted within the framework of the United Nations, which closely link the protection of adequate housing to the notion of human dignity. At the European level, France recognizes that adequate housing is part of the respect to a private and normal family life
