Luxembourg, 20/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 19 September, the European Investment Bank (EIB) granted France a €500 million loan for building and refurbishing social housing. France is faced with a major imbalance between supply and demand for social housing. The current housing crisis is particularly due to a decade of insufficient building and some of the social housing stock of 4.5 million units is too concentrated in the most disadvantaged areas, which suffer from major problems of...