The population is fragmented sociologically

The arrival of the TGV in 2000 doped the attractiveness of the Vaucluse. A two hours forty Paris, served at certain times of the year every half-hour, Avignon seems to have all the advantages. A look at its housing stock and disenchantment. This city of 88.000 inhabitants, like many medium-sized cities, highlights the major contradictions of France construction. The application of secondary residences is enhanced over the years, over the region, including the very young, people now experiencing great difficulties for lodging.

The territory is close Vaucluse means "vallis clausa" , wedged between the Luberon and Ventoux on one side and the Durance and the Rhône, 4/5 of the population must shake on a rectangle of 70 km long by 30 wide. The smallness of the developable areas is compounded by the typology of the premises and the threat of natural disasters: the 151 communes that account Department, 141 are subject to the risk of floods or forest fires, forcing planners to freeze large surfaces. Land pressure is very strong and the temptation of the owners to sell to the Parisians, foreigners and retirees more than social housing organizations. As everyone wants the end of the garden and his BBQ, agricultural land close to the Isle-sur-la-Sorgue such Commons are now more expensive than the subdivisions of the suburbs of Cavaillon or Avignon.

"We haven't been able to stay local, deplores Jean-Baptiste white, Vice President of the Communauté de communes Provence-Luberon-Durance, first Deputy of Cavaillon." The population is fragmented sociologically. It was never even built in Department despite the scarcity land but never also few social housing. "The Department has experienced a surge in housing starts in 2005, representing 4,000 units, but the number of social housing levelled off at 400 per year to 20,000 requests. The three housing agencies: the public agency to place Operatives, Vaucluse housing and Mistral Habitat can no longer find land to launch new programs.

The field open to developers

The pardons of the social Park in the outskirts of the towns, including Monclar, and projects Anru for the Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Avignon or Cavaillon are insufficient to meet the expectations of the residents of neighborhoods where are concentrated the towers and bars for decades. Avignon, which covered 70 of the housing of the agglomeration, consists, as a number of other municipalities in the Vaucluse, a heart of city, then, first circle, HLM and little grâcieux subdivisions, and second charming residential sets.

"Is needed for social housing to create servicedans jobs the Department where the unemployment rate exceeds at least two points the average national", deplored the elected. The average income per household is estimated at 43,000 euros per year in the Vaucluse and only 33,000 euros at Cavaillon, Bollène and Sorgues. Land home to migrant populations related to agriculture, it is the poorest of the thirteen departments of the South of the France.

The mayors of small common, who ruled for twenty new years coming the construction of social housing for the reception of foreign families and have special permits to build houses, realize that they are unable today to accommodate the children of their voters in financial acceptable conditions without having set up land reserves. The field is open to private promoters strongly encouraged to develop mixed operations.

Many elected officials committed a dialogue with them by asking, in the best case for the more discerning, conditions in respect of the residential equilibria. "Was too built a minimum in the past.". "We want more bars, tours or cottage but the diversity of housing areas: collective, individual, grouped, and diversity", insists Jean-Baptiste white.

The euphoric effects of the decentralization of 1983 dashed, some mayors again listen to the advice of representatives of the State, prefect and DDE, remain neutral in principle but fly missions on housing, urban planning and policy of the city. Relay between elected officials and the State, by funding through the Anru Borloo plan, these officials provide their technical expertise and encourage to work with private developers to solve public problems. These joint operations supposed to promote social cohesion are well received by the free sector manufacturers who have any interest to the chain of housing on the way.