Entitlement to enforceable housing (Dalo): to assert his right to housing - For accommodation in Île-de-France

The Dalo appeal must allow for the award of urgent social housing.

It is reserved for certain applicants for social housing, who are the only ones who can benefit from it.

To benefit from the right to housing (Dalo), you must complete the following conditions :

• Be French or have a valid right or residence permit
• Complete the income requirements for social housing

In addition, you must be in at least 1 of the following :

• Not having received a proposal for social housing adapted to your needs (number of people to be housed...) and your abilities (income...), despite a waiting time greater than abnormally long delay
• Being homeless (staying with relatives, being homeless...)
• Have a court order evicting you from your home, without resettlement
• Be hosted in a lodging structure or a social hotel residence continuously for more than 6 months
• Be temporarily housed in transitional housing (for example, housing provided by an association) or a home (social residence, house, family pension...) for more than 18 months
• Living in a room unsuitable for the home (cellar, garage, shop, windowless room...)
• Living in a home unhealthy or in a dangerous dwelling (risks of collapse or fire, insecurity linked to delinquency...)
• Be disabled, or have a disabled person or at least 1 minor child at your care, and living in a dwelling overbusy or not decent (without facilities allowing access to drinking water, drainage of dirty water, normal heating, lighting and the operation of household appliances...).

To make your appeal Dalo, you can get help from one of the following people:

• A social worker, notably at the Caf: titleContent or in town hall
• One approved association

You must provide the following:

• Cerfa Form No. 15036 to be printed, completed and signed
• Supporting documents indicated on the explanatory note

Amicable appeal to the departmental mediation commission for a housing offer

You must send these documents to the Secretariat of the Dalo Mediation Commission of the department where you want to obtain social housing. You can either deposit them with the Commission Secretariat or send them to the Commission Secretariat by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

When the Commission Secretariat received your complete file, it sends you an acknowledgement.

The date of the acknowledgement of receipt shall be the date of a period of three months during which the Commission must make its decision.

The commission must make its decision within 3 months from the date of acknowledgement of receipt of your appeal Dalo.

Within 6 months who follow the decision of the commission recognizing you as a priority applicant, the prefect must make you accommodation proposals adapted to your needs and abilities.

During this period, you can inquire about the progress of your application by calling the following number:

After this period, if the prefect has not made you a proposal for suitable accommodation, you have 4 months to file an appeal before the administrative tribunal.

To appeal to the Administrative Court

You have to appeal before the Administrative Court within 4 months of the end of the period of time to be given to the prefect to offer you accommodation.

To do this, you must provide the administrative tribunal a copy of the decision of the mediation commission recognizing you as a priority and as being in urgent need of accommodation. You don't have to hire a lawyer. You can get help from a social worker or a approved association.

Decision of the Administrative Court

The Administrative Tribunal has 2 months to reach a decision.

The court can require the housing department to house you when the judge finds that you meet the following 2 conditions:

• A mediation commission has recognized you as a priority applicant
• You have not been provided with accommodation suitable to your needs and abilities