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20 million for the rehabilitation of the RUA - Pécresse is cons ...

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HIGH-DE-SEINE

City U of Antony: the UMP wants to rebuild the PS wants to renovate

17.12.2009, 7:51 p.m. his opponent in the regional, the socialist president of the regional council Jean-Paul Huchon, it proposed an alternative. With 2100 rented to students between 130 and 220 euros per month, the residence of Jean-Zay Antony is one of the largest in Europe. It should have a rehabilitation program of 20 million voted on Thursday by the Regional Council of Ile-de-France. "This is a powerful act for the preservation of thousands of housing students of the university campus," said Mayor Clamart Philippe Kaltenbach (PS), also regional advisor.

These homes "must be restored and not destroyed as desired by the elected UMP urban community of Hauts de Bievre, new owner of the site who want to give these lands to private development," writes Philippe Kaltenbach in a statement . According to the mayor of Clamart, Valerie Pecresse, Regional Councillor and Minister of Higher Education and Research

, "took no part in the vote, like all of the UMP. Is it because the mail she sent to the region's socialist president Jean-Paul Huchon?

The cons-proposal Valerie Pécresse

According to AFP, who had knowledge of the contents of the letter, the minister complained that the Jean Zay-residence, built in 1955, "has never been rehabilitated." It states that "the urban community of Hauts de Bievre was called last year for the transfer of

property of the residence to establish a great plan to restructure and improve the quality of housing offered to students. "

In this letter, there is no question of rehabilitating the building: the Minister for "a dwelling destroyed the home of Antony as part of the restructuring will be replaced by the construction of 1, 2 housing new and top surface. It also states have "obtained the general council of Hauts-de-Seine a firm commitment on the construction of 3,000 additional housing units in the department by 2014."

On 7 November, members of the UNEF student union had given the "price destruction" to the minister, who was attending a convention on housing, precisely in reference to the campus of Antony. This criticism would not have fallen in deaf ears. In addition, the Minister announced 12,000 additional housing for students in France in 2009 with the construction of 3,807 rooms and rehabilitation of 8,412 others.