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Can public housing decrease segregation ? Lessons and Challenges from Non European Immigration in France

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  • Gregory Verdugo

    (OFCE & Sciences Po Paris & Université PARIS I Sorbonne, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne)

  • Sorana Toma

    (CREST, ENSAE, Université Paris Saclay, Institut d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris)

Abstract

Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of “ghettos” in large cities. Using French census data over three decades, we examine how this increase in public housing participation has affected segregation. While segregation levels have increased moderately on average, the number of immigrant enclaves has rown. The growth of enclaves is being driven by the large increase in non-European immigrants in the ensus tracts where the largest housing projects are located, both in the housing projects and the surrounding on-public dwellings. As a result, contemporary differences in segregation levels across metropolitan areas are being shaped by the concentration of public housing within cities, in particular the share of non-European mmigrants in large housing projects constructed before the 1980s. Nevertheless, the overall effect of public housing on segregation has been ambiguous. While large projects have increased segregation, the inflows of non-European immigrants into small projects have brought many immigrants into census tracts where they have previously been rare, and thus, diminished segregation levels.

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  • Gregory Verdugo & Sorana Toma, 2018. "Can public housing decrease segregation ? Lessons and Challenges from Non European Immigration in France," Documents de Travail de l'OFCE 2018-17, Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE).
    • Handle: RePEc:fce:doctra:1817
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    1. Guillaume Chapelle & Laurent Gobillon & Benjamin Vignolles, 2025. "Building without income mixing: Public housing quotas in France," Working Papers halshs-05039367, HAL.
    2. Benoît SCHMUTZ & Grégory VERDUGO, 2020. "Do Politicians Shape the Electorate ? Evidence from French Municipalities," Working Papers 2020-18, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, revised 01 Apr 2021.
    3. Alfonso Gallego-Valadés & Francisco Ródenas-Rigla & Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, 2021. "Spatial Distribution of Public Housing and Urban Socio-Spatial Inequalities: An Exploratory Analysis of the Valencia Case," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(20), pages 1-17, October.
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    5. Oskari Harjunen & Tuukka Saarimaa & Janne Tukiainen, 2021. "Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation and Local Public Goods," Discussion Papers 138, Aboa Centre for Economics.
    6. Haley McAvay, 2020. "Socioeconomic status and long-term exposure to disadvantaged neighbourhoods in France," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(13), pages 2663-2680, October.
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    8. Kévin Beaubrun-Diant & Tristan-Pierre Maury, 2020. "Income Segregation and Social Housing in France," Working Papers hal-02526776, HAL.

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    JEL classification:

    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
    • J78 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Public Policy (including comparable worth)

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