A report on the future of the National Agency for Urban Renewal (Anru) expected in June

The report, which must be submitted "before the summer" to the minister, was entrusted to the general director of Anru, Anne-Claire Mialot, to the PS mayor of Villeurbanne, Cédric van Styvendael, and to senior civil servant Jean- Martin Delorme.

“This will be an opportunity to open avenues that will allow us to explore to prepare together for the next 20 years of urban renewal,” declared the minister in a pre-recorded message, broadcast at the closing of the conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of Anru in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis).

Created by a decree of February 9, 2004 at the instigation of Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister responsible for the City and then for Housing under the presidency of Jacques Chirac, Anru has led spectacular operations to demolish towers and building blocks. and housing renovation, aimed at opening up working-class neighborhoods and improving their quality of life, social diversity or security.

In the first program (PNRU), completed in 2021, it committed 11,3 billion euros, with tangible effects on the standard of living in the most targeted neighborhoods, according to a France Stratégie study published on Wednesday, but much less in those where operations were less intense.

The second, started in 2014, with a budget of 12 billion, integrates new dimensions, particularly environmental.

The authors of the future report will have to work on the scope of action of Anru and the instruments of its policy, its financing, the place of residents in the projects, according to the mission letter, consulted by AFP, which informed them was sent last December.

They will have to think about ways to improve “social and functional diversity” in priority neighborhoods, as well as their adaptation to global warming and the adequacy of their urban planning with ecological imperatives and public safety.