"One quarter of all Paris residents now live in public housing, up from 13 percent in the late 1990s. The mixité sociale policy, promoted most forcefully by left-wing political parties, notably the French Communist Party, targets the economic segregation seen in many world cities.
'Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it,' said Ian Brossat...who served for a decade as City Hall’s head of housing."