THE USELESS HOUSE IN STAINS
For lack of water, a new city has been uninhabited for four years
It took three weeks to make it habitable!
It's astounding!
And pitiful.

The Departmental Office of Low-cost Housing has had a group of buildings built for large families in Stains for four years, which includes more than four hundred apartments that can accommodate a total of fifteen hundred families.
For four years, these pretty-looking houses, very well designed, with large and airy rooms and large bay windows, have been empty.
Let's be clear. The ground floor of each house is inhabited by the concierge, and the first floor by two tenants. But the dwellings and apartments on the upper floors only offer windows without curtains and unfurnished rooms.
Why?
Because the water does not reach the second floor.
So, for four years, a real working-class and bourgeois city, which includes two-room dwellings and larger apartments, has been half-deserted because the Compagnie des Eaux de la Courneuve, which supplies the region, has not been able to find sufficient drinking water resources to make the premises habitable.
And will it last much longer?
The Stains rural policeman, to whom I ask the question, shakes his head.

- No. In April or May, the renovation work will be carried out. A team of ten men and the pipeline will progress quickly, in three weeks…

So it only takes three weeks to make the city habitable, and we waited four years to decide, while on the opposite side of the road, a hundred meters from the new houses, mud huts and half-collapsed hovels shelter as best they can a teeming population living in deplorable hygienic conditions.
The conclusion? We leave it to you to draw it...

G. L. F.