Agresti-Roubache calls for an increased 2024 budget for urban policy

“I know that I have a budget which is increasing, we are going to increase to 640 million euros, we are going from 599 million euros to 640 including 50 million for Anru (National Agency for Urban Renewal), therefore on urban renewal", said the Secretary of State, two weeks before the presentation of the 2024 finance bill.

She did not detail what the additional funding would be used for, leaving this task to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, who should announce it at the end of an Interministerial Cities Committee scheduled for October 9.

The Marseille elected official, however, said she wanted to fight again to better finance the ecological transition of priority neighborhoods.

“Inequality in the face of climate change is even greater in priority neighborhoods. And that is not acceptable. If there is a fight that I want to lead, it’s this one,” he said. -she promised.

Ms. Agresti-Roubache also hoped that funding for priority neighborhoods would not come only from city policy, whose most visible investments relate to the transformation of housing via Anru.

“Common law must take its full place: security, culture, sport, education,” she said.

2,5% of the total budget of the next city contracts, which define the framework of city policy in the communities, could be allocated to non-priority districts, specified the Secretary of State, "on areas which do not are not or no longer a priority but who need help, who need to be helped to get much better.”

The Secretary of State also called for "generalizing" the "educational cities", a system aimed at intensifying the care of students to avoid dropping out, and integrating sports venues.

She also acknowledged her recent support for the eviction from her social housing of a man convicted of having participated in the riots and of his family, who had angered leftists and associations.

"They explain to me that someone who has come to set fire to a town hall, a school, to an elected official's house, we don't have the right to tell him 'you won't have any more social housing'? Where is the problem? ?,” she asked. “If saying that is being controversial, it goes 10.000 kilometers over my head!”