"There also is vestigial cynicism in Paris about public housing after a series of scandals in the 1990s, when some conservative politicians were revealed to be paying cheap rents for luxury city-owned apartments. Today, the city awards public housing through a system that strips the names of applicants and prioritizes them through a points system that factors income and family circumstances."
Purposedly misleading... Cheap-rent luxury appartments for politicians still exist, they just moved from the "public" social housing company to more discret one.
And about the baseline of the article, the famous "mixité sociale", do you know what happens when you mix together people of various social conditions, backgrounds, and education? Troubles.
Been there, done that, never again. This policy is slowly building a time-bomb in french major cities.