The double gap
Since the 2000s, the objective of territorial rebalancing in terms of social housing has become a new tool of public intervention to fight against urban segregation. In large metropolises subject to rising housing prices, social housing is being built in well-off neighborhoods where its share is historically low. Based on three sources of data (administrative re-housing files, censuses on an infra-municipal scale, monographs of re-housed families), this article provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the modalities and conditions of integration of re-housed households in Parisian well-off districts. The re-housed populations are distinguished not only from the resident populations by differences in standards of living and origin (a phenomenon already well documented), but also by differences in family structure and gender norms. Women at the head of single-parent families, many relocated in these neighborhoods, are in reality confronted on a daily basis with the norm of the stable nuclear family, which is prevalent in these districts, and which thwarts their chances and experiences of local integration.