HLM

HLM



 * French:** //**h**abitation à **l**oyer **m**odéré//)


 * English:** HLM are what Americans would call 'housing projects' and what the English would call 'council flats.' They are a form of subsidied housing (literally meaning housing at a moderated rent) and house about 14 million people in France. In this unit, and in media/popular culture references, HLM are associated with extreme poverty and violence, and are also inhabited by first or second generation immigrant families. As the picture above shows, HLM are usually concrete highrise buildings, and largely concentrated in poorer suburbs or banlieues.