Urban contracts for social cohesion (UCCS)

The Urban Contracts for Social Cohesion (CUCS) succeeded city contracts in 2007 as the framework of the developed territory project for the benefit of neighbourhoods in difficulty. The urban contract for social cohesion is a contract between the State and local and regional authorities which commits each of the partners to implement concerted actions to improve the daily lives of inhabitants in neighbourhoods experiencing difficulties (unemployment, violence, housing...). It is prepared at the joint initiative of the mayor, or the president of EPCI, and the prefect of department. The general framework and guidelines were defined by the Interministerial Committee at the City (CIV) of 9 March 2006. The contracts were signed, initially, for a period of three years (2007-2009), by the prefect of department and by the mayor and/or president of EPCI, in consultation with the regional prefect. The circular of 8 November 2010 extended the duration of the CUCS until 31 December 2014. [Law No 2014-173 of 21 February 2014 on programming for the city and urban cohesion](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000028636804&categorieLien=id), introduced new city contracts to replace the CUCS on 1 January 2015. The city’s contractual policy applies to a priority geography that includes all the neighbourhoods identified in urban social cohesion contracts. These neighbourhoods, numbering approximately 2,500, comprise: — on the one hand, almost all of the 751 neighbourhoods classified as Sensitive Urban Areas (Zus) and benefiting from the State’s share of special advantages. — on the other hand, about 1,750 other HZus neighbourhoods, non-Zus, identified as priority areas. During the development of the priority geography of the CUCS, non-Zus neighborhoods were identified as such either at the signature of the CUCS or subsequently by subtracting the Zus zoning they covered. Among these, the districts presented as “outside Zus” are small quarters contiguous to the Zus which serve as a geographical complement to these zonings, but without extension of the specific provisions relating to them. They are thus counted as quarters in their own right. It should be noted, however, that in Marseilles, the districts defined in this framework overlap in part with the perimeter of the Zus of 1996 to which they are attached. The data set made available on this page by CGET covers only neighborhoods outside Zus.