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I told this above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13837463

maybe you will find this kind of renovation interesting.

Yes, there has been a long discussion on what to do with these buildings. Some experts wanted to raze them to the ground and build new ones, but the easier (temporary) solution of renovation was chosen, because it would require too much of government funds and there are also law issues as there isn't many legal means to move stubborn flat owners from their property if they don't do want to and as mostly elders live in these places now (many of them even since it was built), this is a big issue.

It's a natural reaction, avoid the hugh and costly efforts. But, at least in France, the impact of these buildings, in none wealthy [1] places, led to very deep social problems. Racism, poverty, insalubrity..

Destroying them seems the most effective solution as of now. It changes people living there mindset, it removes the memories of the issues attached to the architecture.

for the curious, that theory is quite possible, I don't have data on who was displaced by the "rework". That said the population didn't change much, still cosmopolitan, 3rd gen of immigrants from Africa (north or west).

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