# France: Access to social housing for low-income households (June 2020) * Report on the difficulties of access to the social stock of low-income households in France * Published by a collective of six NGOs (le Secours Catholique, ATD Quart Monde, Habitat et Humanisme, la Fondation Abbé Pierre, l’Association DALO) on 23 June 2020 * * **Summary:** * This report combines statistical analyses, interviews with different actors, case analyses, and focuses on low-income household's access to social housing in France. * The report notes that in France, **the lower the household's income, the less likely it is for that household to obtain social housing.** * In some areas, tens of thousands of households without housing or poorly housed remain on hold due to a lack of affordable social housing. * Attempts by the public authorities to fight this issue and ensure access to social housing for the poorest, whether they come in a form of binding rules (such as the obligation - often not respected - to allocate 25 per cent of housing stock to the lowest-income households) or incentives (authorization - not used - to change rents), remain without notable effect. * **Keywords**: France, low-income households, right to housing, social housing, discrimination, poor housing. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://housing-base.journalismarena.eu/access-to-housing/advocacy-and-policy-reports-and-projects/france-access-to-social-housing-for-low-income-households-june-2020.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.