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While public actions encourage working class people to become owners of their housing, this article questions how the demolition of a degraded property and the relocation of the residents paradoxically reinforce the inequality of the access to this status. Because of their social position and immigrant status, owners living at La?Forrestiere (in Clichy-sous-Bois) were forced to invest in the most degraded units. With the national program for urban renewal, these people are once again limited for housing. Given the impossibility to become owner again, they have no other choice than to accept to be relocated as tenants in public housings and lose their owner status. Exposed to declining social status, they feel constraint to reconsider how their housing positions themselves socially.