Des habitations à bon marché au Việt Nam. La question du logement social en situation coloniale

During the colonial period, the main cities of Việt Nam periodically experienced social housing crises. While Europeans did not remain immune from the consequences of a lack of adequate housing, local populations, who constituted the majority in these makeshift constructs, were most deeply affected. Beginning in the 1920s, faced with the urgency of this problem, the general government sought to adapt contemporaneous French laws in favor of social housing to the local colonial situation. Even though some prototypes of affordable housing were constructed by the Hanoi municipality in the 1930s, it was only in the 1950s that government efforts began to have a significant impact. The politics of housing, and in particular the struggle between inertia and enthusiasm in attitudes regarding social housing projects reveals contradictions in the colonial system when faced with a habitation crisis. Furthermore, the complexity of the situation implicated different actors at different levels, including the Governor General of Indochina, the Superior Resident in Tonkin, the municipalities, the private associations, and to a lesser degree, the construction companies. Finally, from an architectural point of view, the projects put in place were hybrid creations that clearly showed an attempt to adapt to a Vietnamese lifestyle.

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