“Eviction is the worst solution”: the Housing Foundation denounces a new record of evictions in 2025

 

A trauma with lasting consequences

Experiencing an eviction is not a simple forced move, “it’s a trauma” estimates the Housing Foundation which warns of the devastating consequences for the mental and physical health of households, the professional life of parents and, above all, the schooling of children.

The findings after the expulsion are overwhelming:a third of families have still not found a sustainable housing solutionA year after the events, and sometimes even after three years. These thousands of households end up swelling the already saturated ranks of emergency accommodation in Marseille and the region’s large cities, or find themselves forced to live in their cars or on the streets.

 

The Kasbarian Law pointed the finger

For the Foundation, this acceleration of expulsions is the direct result of a political choice. She denounces in particular the effects ofKasbarian law of July 2023which facilitates and accelerates procedures to the detriment of prevention.

While a prevention plan had been outlined in the past, the current Minister of Housing, Vincent Jeanbrun, is accused by the association of remaining“silent in the face of this drama” and to want to further tighten the repression.

 

Solutions to avoid the impasse

Faced with this “social bleeding”, Christophe Robert, general delegate of the Housing Foundation, calls for a radical change of direction:

• Control rentsStrictly speaking.

• Revaluing APLs to support the purchasing power of tenants.

• Massively produce social housingparticularly in our department where demand is exploding.

• Rehousing DALO priority households(more than 100,000 families are still waiting in France).

“It is the responsibility of the State and our social cohesion”concludes the Foundation. The message is clear: without an effective rehousing policy, the situation risks becoming uncontrollable in already weakened city centers like that of Marseille.