In Roubaix, in the priority district of Alma-gare, a collective resists the planned demolition of hundreds of social housing, built in the 1980s. At stake, the demolition of 480 housing, mainly social, provided for by the "new urban renewal plan" ( NPRU) The project, which also provides for 390 rehabilitations, 90 constructions and various social and public facilities, would drive out a thousand of the current inhabitants.
Residents are Supported, within a "popular workshop of urbanism" by architects and urban planners, they impose a counter-project.