Paris Ghetto With Views But No Jobs Shows Decades of Failures
Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris.
Photographer: Alan Jocard/AFP via Getty ImagesGregory Viscusi
Clichy-sous-Bois, the epicenter of riots that shook France 10 years ago, has renovated much of its public housing, built new schools and daycare centers and installed a public pool. It finally has a police station.
What the town of 31,000 still lacks is jobs: The youth unemployment rate is 40 percent.