The next RITM Management Seminar will take place on Friday 30 June, from 12:15 to 13:15. Guillaume Chapelle (CY Cergy Paris Universite and LIEPP) will present Social housing development and segregation: SRU law in France (joint with Laurent Gobillon and Benjamin Vignolles).
Abstract:
We study the effects of the SRU law introduced in France in December 2000 to support scattered development of social housing in cities and favor social mixity. This law imposes 20% of social housing to all medium and large municipalities of large-enough cities, with fees for those not abiding by the law. Using exhaustive fiscal data, we evaluate the effects of the law over the 1996-2008 period using a difference-in-differences approach at the municipality level. We nd that the law stimulated social housing construction in treated municipalities with a proportion of social dwellings below 5%. Within these municipalities, it decreased social housing segregation but it did not decrease much low-income segregation. Regressions at the block level show that, within these municipalities, the concentration of social dwellings increased to a larger extent in blocks with below-average income and below-average concentration of social dwellings.