The city of Besançon prioritizes the enforcement of housing safety standards. As such, it alerts the prefect through an investigative report whenever occupants (tenants or owners) are at...

In Lyon, the urban sanitation department has trained one of its technicians to become an indoor environmental consultant. Based on a doctor’s referral, this consultant inspects the homes...

To help ensure that residents of the Île-de-France region, including the poorest, are not housed in substandard and/or unsuitable housing, the Île-de-France Regional Health Agency...

The "10,000 Supported Affordable Housing Units" program, now part of the National Fund for Support in Accessing and Maintaining Housing, enables social housing providers to offer...

The National Council of People in Shelter (CNPA) operates by drawing on the expertise of the communities it serves. The 114 national and regional delegates are elected by their peers to...

Professionals at healthcare access centers (PASS) note that, for their patients, the issue of housing is frequently raised during consultations with social workers and remains a major...

The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that access to quality housing is one of the basic prerequisites for leading a healthy life. It is a major determinant of health....

This special issue on housing presents a non-exhaustive overview of the scientific literature on substandard housing. In addition, several experimental, innovative, or long-term programs...

The emergence of infectious disease outbreaks is the result of complex dynamics influenced both by environmental conditions conducive to the development and spread of infectious agents...

Objective: This 2018 report from the Healthcare-Associated Infections Early Warning and Response System (HAI-EWRS) regarding carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) or...