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This article explores how the use of the category “Roma” to define the inhabitants of a slum is a factor in the decision to clear it and in the rehousing options chosen. The analysis is based in particular on a case study of a slum clearance conducted at Saint-Denis in the Paris region (93) in the 2010s. Drawing on Nancy Fraser’s work relating to the theories of distributive and recognition justice, this study establishes how a municipality’s initial plan to provide decent housing for slum dwellers ultimately results in the production of a specific type of housing. The article thus seeks to illustrate how the racializing treatment of slums, both in the past and today, leads to the production of specific types of housing and the routinization of discriminatory policies.