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" QQ THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tharsdey, December 15, 1966 Immigrant Workers Live In French Shanty Towns By PETER BUCKLEY PARIS (CD) -- Tha muech- rooming shanty towns of towns are wide open to ~ asco avererosdine -= ri, ous social problems. a See | When a sudden fire swept aide oF lanterre warough sos syuaie such buildings at earlier this year, causing three deaths, authorities found that 162 persons had been made homeless. Barely two square yards had been avail- able to each person, including the dirt lanes separating the shacks, The majority of the shanty- town residents are single men. Many of them, particu- larly among the Portuguese, aie iiiiieraie and unskilied. They have come to France to find jobs in the building trades, public works and other fields, supporting fam- ilies back in their homeland. Most of them are here il- legally--the Algerians arriv- ing as "tourists" and staying on, the Portuguese sneaking across the Pyrenees from Spain -- but the government generally .takes no action to deport them because of the shortage of unskilled labor. Thousands of their country- men, as well as workers from Spain and Italy and other countries, have been more or less absorbed into the French community, But many of the newcomers find it difficult to adapt. For them, the shanty towns pro- vide the advantage of neigh- bors .who speak' their own language, cheap rents and a minimum of official interfer. ence, Previous government pro- grams to reduce the bidon- villes brought resettlement for 15,000 people, mostly single men placed in rooming houses. But government au- thorities report that the resi- dents of the bidonvilles often refuse to move or else return nostalgically to their former homes once resettled. immigrant workers will continua te sour inte France to fill the labor short- age, and since the pressure population is likely to grow, few observers are willin = predict that the bidon will have vanished in five for housing fromthe existing 12,000 :letter 'carriers. he mang a wicket clerks will display the gold-cdlored centennial . + b> 9 on a navy blue background. years' time. MARK '67 WITH BADGES OTTAWA (CP) -- Postal em- ployees will be wearing centen- nial badges on their uniforms #4 a eased. during Weer to gunicies Cae ada's celebration of the 100th year of Confederation. About pepe se OPTOMETRIST 8 BOND ST. "Evomnawa | OSHAWA France are to be wiped out by official decree, although it's likely to take longer than the five years the government has set as its target. French authorities estimate that 70,000 persons -- mainly immigrant workers from Al- la and Portugal--now live = sprawling, per collec- ions of wood and tin shacks BA » = re PE THE major French cities in recent years. 50,000 persons live te ty my baci guese, are reported a shanty town at Ghateins, southeast of the city. Outlining an intensified five- year government program to wipe out the shanty towns, Housing Minister Roland Nun- gessér wrote recently to re- gional authorities Greutaet nce that they must attack "with great firmness a state of affairs whose continuation should not be tolerated." The regional authorities who govern Paris and its surroundings have estimated it will cost nearly 400,000,000 francs ($87,000,000) to buy up land and build housing for the residents of its bidonvilles. HOUSING INADEQUATE The national government-- by Finance Minister ichel Debre, who has long campaigned to eliminate the shanty towns --has brought down laws to expand official powers of expropriation, pro- vide temporary accommoda- tion for the dispossessed, boost the public-housing pro- gram and make housing loans easier for municipalities. Debre has announced that immediate public - housing plans are to be expanded by 5,000 apartments solely for people living in the shanty The problem of the bidon- villes comes at a time when is a prime concern for the average Frenchman. On the one hand there is a continuing and serious short- age of adequate housing in France. Two - thirds of France's housing was built before 1914. A quarter of the population lives in over- crowded conditions. Much of the existing housing, particu- larly in the country, is still po -- pone oy - Gov- ar On the other hand, many new homes and apartments remain empty for months. A recent study showed that nearly 9,000 new apartments were vacant in the Paris area alone--a quarter of the total built since the beginning of the year and enough to ac- commodate 40,000 persons. PRICES TOO HIGH Construction compa- nies blame a shortage of mortgage money and a sud- den spurt of building, particu- larly of elegant complexes of apartments going up around the major cities. But potential buyers complain that prices are just too high, that the cost of an apartment has doubled in the last 10 years. The bidonvilles are a partic- ularly malicious aspect of the whole housing problem. Spreading like cancerous growths across disused waste land, they generally comprise nothing but shacks built from remnants of wood and metal. Usually there is no electricity, running water or sanitary fa- cilities. Drinking water must be fetched from a nearby tap. The more enterprising of the inhabitants have opened shack-type cafes and shops and some even "rent" lean- tos they have built on spare land to fellow emigres. 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