“…It highlights the considerable gap that exists between the real estate market supply and the purchasing power of households. So far, due to the weakness of instruments and unstudied policies (Belguidoum et al, 2010), these housing projects have generally gone by hand with the disconnection of the end-users from their everyday urban surroundings (Mebirouk et al, 2005;Msilta, 2009;Naceur, 2013;Djafri et al, 2021), challenging social cohesion and revealing neighborhood effects such as insecurity and delinquency (Boutabbal, 2016; Safar-Zitoune, 2020), residential segregation (Safar-Zitoun, 2009; Benazzouz-Belhai, 2018), the inadequacy of dwellings to household's lifestyles (Souiah, 2005;Bendraoua et al, 2008), the lack of public facilities, amenities and public transportation, and the difficulties in accessing workplaces (Msilta,, 2009;Semmoud, 2015). As a result, many vacant dwellings have been identified as being unoccupied by their owners (Semyane, 2020).…”