Paris is 25% public housing and 19% public commercial retail. “Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it.”

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The New York Times article highlights Paris’s aggressive social housing policies, which aim to maintain economic diversity in the city center by offering affordable housing to middle- and lower-income residents, small-business owners, and essential workers — a unique approach compared to other global cities facing affordability crises.