Overview
- The European Court of Human Rights, which ruled Tuesday, acknowledged France did not carry out domestic orders to house 15 applicants yet held by 5–2 that Article 6 was not violated.
- Dalo is a 2007 French law that lets people in severe need obtain a court order requiring the state to provide social housing.
- The court accepted a "commencement of execution" because authorities use penalty payments known as astreintes and a compensation scheme, a stance critics say encourages the state to pay instead of providing homes.
- From 2008 to the end of 2024, 1,475,999 Dalo claims were filed and 477,767 were approved, yet 110,324 priority households still waited for housing at the end of 2024.
- Advocates point to real-life cases, including a 68-year-old woman living on the street since June 2023 and a parent raising two children in a 10 m² studio since 2019.