Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/319123 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17854
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the effects of the SRU law introduced in France in December 2000 to support scattered development of public housing in cities and favor social mixity. This law imposes 20% of public dwellings 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 and neighborhood levels. We find that the law stimulated public housing construction in treated municipalities, but only slightly increased the presence of low-income households. Indeed, new public dwellings enter categories to which medium-income are eligible and most additional occupants are not poor. Within municipalities, the policy decreased public housing segregation but it barely decreased low-income segregation. This comes from local authorities increasing over time the presence of public dwellings in neighborhoods away from existing public housing but in places concentrating low-income households.
Subjects: 
construction
policy evaluation
public housing
segregation
JEL: 
R31
R38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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