The Fédération des Associations et des Acteurs pour la Promotion et l’Insertion par le Logement (lit. Federation of Associations and other bodies For Social Inclusion through Housing), known as Fapil, is a french national network of local bodies / NGO aiming to implement the right to housing for all.

• easing access to housing and fostering tenancy security for the most vulnerable
• widening the range of solutions to the multiple demands
• increasing the supply
• involving the individuals into the research of solutions to their needs

Throughout reception and orientation of people in demand and personnal support, throughout adapted rental management of temporary or long term housing, throughout adapted estate production and intervention on decayed co-ownership buildings, Fapil members struggle for the equal access of all to fundamental rights, for social and urban diversity and against discriminations. ► Our values (French)

Fapil also sees itself as a « place » of exchange and shared reflexion, a « place » where know-how and tools are created in common. Therefore, Fapil organizes teaching sessions, forums, workshops and elaborates various documents.

As a network of operators, Fapil aims at building a shared expertise throughout exchange on experimentations. Strenghthening this collective expertise, Fapil helps its members reaching a  higher level of professionalism.

The national Fapil staff (five people in Paris) is consolidated by regional teams in the following regions : Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes and Méditerranée. Some other regional clusters / unions also exist, but they have no proper staff yet and do work on a pure volontary basis. These regional unions have been created to foster a ground based dynamic.

Agence nationale pour la Cohésion Sociale et l’Egalité des chances (Acsé), Agence Nationale pour l’Habitat (Anah), Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), Direction Générale de l’Action Sociale (DGAS), Direction Générale de l’Habitat, de l’Urbanisme et des Paysages (DGHUP), Fondation Abbé Pierre, Fondation JM Bruneau, Fondation de France, les assureurs mutualistes MAIF et MACIF, Socamab Assurances SA.

When Fapil gets created in 1988, the issue of access to housing, once merely solved, is coming back through unknown phenomenons of social exclusion. To face these new forms of social exclusion, the exchange of knowledge and crossing of know-how then becomes necessary. That is when the idea of social inclusion through housing emerges. That is also when Social rental agencies (Aivs), let / sublet from institutionnal social rental housing are implemented for the very first time… News practises are created, new agents enter the game.

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