{"id":901,"date":"2005-11-05T20:34:40","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:26","slug":"the_riots_in_pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"The Riots in Paris and the French Fiscal Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following the French papers a bit in keeping up on the riots in les banlieue<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And found an interesting thing today which I’m mulling over.<\/p>\n

In Le Monde, an article discussing<\/a> the politics around response to the riots mentions in passing that the public housing budget in the 2005 budget had been cut by 310 million euros.<\/p>\n

L’annulation de 310 millions d’euros de cr\u00e9dits dans le budget 2005 (Le Monde du 5 novembre), affect\u00e9s \u00e0 l’insertion et au logement social dans les banlieues, ne peut que renforcer leur d\u00e9fiance. “Il est imp\u00e9ratif que toutes les le\u00e7ons soient tir\u00e9es de ces \u00e9meutes. Autant sur les failles de la politique de la ville que sur l’organisation des services publics” , d\u00e9non\u00e7ait, le 3 novembre, le Forum fran\u00e7ais des maires pour la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 urbaine (FFSU). Au fil des crises depuis un quart de si\u00e8cle, la politique de la ville a en effet subi de multiples inflexions. Aux Grand Projets urbains du gouvernement Jospin de la fin des ann\u00e9es 1990 a succ\u00e9d\u00e9 “le programme national de r\u00e9novation urbaine” , mis en oeuvre depuis 2003, par Jean-Louis Borloo, ministre de la coh\u00e9sion sociale. Au “traitement social” des banlieues dont la droite stigmatisait les \u00e9checs, s’est substitu\u00e9 un projet, certes ambitieux mais centr\u00e9 sur le logement et l’habitat.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The response of the French council of “mayors for urban security” was simple – the problem is both urban policy and the organization of social services to the public.
\nI’m going to dodge the issue of whether a dependent welfare class – confronted with a decline in the government’s commitment to fund their benefits – can be expected to react this way. <\/p>\n

I’ll move directly to the meaty question:<\/p>\n

In the face of national fiscal crises – and a dependent minority who has been in essence, pacified through generous welfare programs – what happens when you can’t afford those programs any more?<\/p>\n

What is the social and political fallout of unintegrated minorities who can’t sustain themselves, and whose subsidies are being cut off?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did French budget cuts trigger the riots?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}