The actors in the field fear that the text against the illicit occupation of the housing carried by reborn deputies causes a sharp increase in the most precarious expluses.
by Claire Anné
Flore (the first name has been changed) is so stressed to have seen his expulsion ordered by the judge that Nathalie Cariou-Dourmap received it on Monday, January 23, without waiting for her weekly permanence in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint -Denis). “All that, is it for me?” Asks, incredulous, the 53 -year -old single mother, seeing the files prepared by the expense project manager, who has recently accompanied her. You have to go quickly: Flore can be expelled from his apartment at the end of the winter break, March 31, unless she obtained a stay.
“The judge can grant you three to thirty-six additional months”, explains Nathalie Cariou-Dourmap. This potential respite, which could allow Flore to relocate and find a more remunerative job, is threatened by the so -called “antisquat” bill, adopted on December 2 in the National Assembly. This text, carried by the Renaissance deputies Guillaume Kasbarian and Aurore Bergé, also made three years in prison and 45,000 euros fine a squatter or a tenant refusing to leave the premises after the expulsion procedure . “When I learned it, I stayed speechless,” says the project manager. An amendment voted in a committee in the Senate on Wednesday, January 25, removes the amalgam, but maintains the possibility of condemning a tenant expelled to six months in prison and 7,500 euros fine. It’s already too much, says Nathalie Cariou-Dourmap.
Flore, liable to prison? She who raises her two daughters alone “tightened her belt” to pay her 800 euros in rent. When she could no longer have the means to pay the whole, she wanted to “explain” it to its owner. He who had not wanted to repair his broken bathtub did not answer his calls. Since then, he has often come to threaten her. Flore had his forced door. Her lock was filled with glue of countless times, blocking her at home until a friend comes to replace the lock.
In the hope of earning more, the life assistant stopped the interim, “one day we take you, the next day we do not take you”. She works in a school canteen, an hour by metro. Its manager remains deaf to his requests to increase his hours, and this part -time is not enough to pay the rent, which now exceeds 900 euros. It is all the more difficult since because of its unpaids, its 300 euros of personalized housing assistance (APL) were suspended. With the help of a social worker, Flore has been an over -indebtedness file. Its debts were erased. Not the expulsion procedure initiated by the owner. With the new delays accumulated, she owes him more than 7,000 euros.
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