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France's Sordid Housing Crisis - mechanicalorganic.com
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France's Sordid Housing Crisis Print E-mail

By Jonny Dymond
Europe correspondent, BBC News 


Protests about the housing situation are becoming common in Paris

It took six months for Liberation journalist Ondine Millot to get to the truth about the most sordid side of France's housing crisis.

Look through some property websites and you can see the advertisements: the phrase you are looking for is contre services - when a room in an apartment is offered, sometimes "free", in exchange for services.

Sometimes the service is perfectly innocent - cleaning the apartment or washing clothes, to defray some of the high cost of renting property.

But sometimes it is not: instead the requests are sexual, demeaning, bordering on the perverse. "Sex twice a month," is one blunt demand. Another asks for someone "open in spirit and elsewhere".

"Flat in exchange for libertine services," goes another.

Property-for-sex


Read More - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7290139.stm

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