PACMAIN

Project overview

This project examines, through the lens of maintenance, how the City of Paris looks after its social housing stock. Adopting a socio-technical approach, it explores how the City, through its architects, social housing providers and technical services, coordinates and carries out the upkeep and repair of its neighbourhoods and housing blocks.
Whilst the housing crisis appears particularly acute in the Parisian context, and faced with an ageing housing stock, maintenance is emerging in Paris as a crucial aspect of urban life, capable both of extending the lifespan of older buildings and of ensuring the quality of the housing stock.
In this context, housing maintenance is becoming a means for the City of Paris to improve the comfort of social housing residents, stabilise their housing-related expenditure and reduce the environmental cost of potential urban regeneration.