The Economic Conquest of Social Housing Communities
This article is devoted to the reexamination of urban policy in Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Étienne. We will attempt to understand the current logic of establishing economical activities, particularly in tertiary sectors, within communities that are subject to city policy. Similar to the dilution policy of large social communities in the suburbs, the objective of reappropriation of the spaces that have opened up is to promote social mixing. Founded on the hope of attracting the middle class, this principle is focused less on the objective of building other forms of housing than to encouraging functional mixing, which is thought to be more realistic from a public action perspective.