2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Study of the French Social Policy and its Local Governance, focusing on Minimum Income Guarantee and Housing Rights

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22530618
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Social welfare and social work studies
Research Institution	Higashi Nippon International University
Principal Investigator	HARADA Yasumi 東日本国際大学, 福祉環境学部, 教授 (00406000)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	社会的排除 / 社会的包摂政策 / 積極的連帯所得(RSA) / 伴走型就労支援 / 中間的就労 / 居住貧困 / 提訴権付き住宅権(DALO)
Research Abstract	Concerning the today’s social inclusion policy in France, some features can be confirmed through the two measures recently adopted against social exclusion : reform of the social minimum income paid for the poor at working age, i.e. RSA inaugurated in 2008 and promulgation of the DALO, "the right to housing opposable” in courts, voted in 2007. The main features are as follows first, increasing the linkage between minimum income benefit and efforts for jobs second, strengthening cash incentives to earned income third, putting the emphasis on personalized service of accompaniment for job seek activities fourth, presenting the principle “housing first” to prevent the social exclusion and fifth, effectively offering a decent accommodation to the housing poor by means of the DALO.