Saint-Denis is the first overseas community to host a safeguard plan, exceptional system for the recovery of private co-ownerships in difficulty in which the State can intervene up to 55%. The program concerns La Chaumière, set of buildings built in 1963 in the Saint-François ramps, which has been experiencing continuous deterioration and impoverishment for many years. Nearly 400 housing units in the co-ownership have become unsanitary and are generating numerous social problems., urban, legal or financial. This is the’ National housing agency which made the first observations and analyzes in 2016. In 2021, an agreement was finally reached between Anah, the prefecture and the city of Saint-Denis, leading to a safeguard plan validated in November 2022 and the agreement for which will be officially signed in May 2023. A first study estimated the work to bring common areas and collective facilities up to standard at 24 million euros.. An envelope of 5,6 million euros, financed mainly by Anah, has already been granted to Saint-Denis in order to begin emergency work, which will begin in March 2023.
