Tommie Jones works in a pharmaceutical factory in Indiana. Getting home is pretty quick, she just moved into a house just two minutes away. There are still a few finishing touches left, but this brand new house with its three bedrooms and large garage is his great pride. The purchase cost: amounts to 180,000 euros, 15,000 less than market prices. It was his company that had it built and sold it to him at this unbeatable price. In the neighborhood, she is not the only one to make a good deal. In this new subdivision, almost all the houses will be sold to employees of the same company. The goal of the boss is to support the development of his company. Innovative? Not that much. It is in fact the great return of the workers’ housing estates. These dwellings, which in the past, here in France, were intended to house workers not far from their factories. The concept is coming back into fashion in the United States, because the unemployment rate is so low that labor is hard to find. These new houses at a reduced price for employees have become a recruitment argument. Universal film studios will launch the construction of a luxury workers’ village on the edge of a lake, with a thousand apartments at reduced prices, swimming pools and shops. In the United States, even the public sector now offers housing for rent at preferential prices for civil servants. Andrea David, a plastic arts teacher, has just moved into a two-room apartment. His rent is 20% below the market price. With her small salary as a teacher, she would never have been able to live there. On the outskirts of New York, everything is very expensive. So, to convince teachers to come and teach there anyway, the rectorate created a whole housing estate for them. Only problem, it is better not to be disturbed by the between-oneself, because obviously, when all your neighbors of landing are professors, the social mix does not exist any more. TF1 | Report A. De Précigout, A. Poupon, V. Mortreux
2023-06-28 18:22:18
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