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The mission of the ''Régies de Quartier'' is to improve collective life in a common space allowing for shared management between the inhabitants who benefit from the project, the elected representatives of the municipality and finally the organisms (public or semi-public) responsible for affordable housing. A ''Régie de Territoire'' is the transposition of the values and practices of a Régie de Quartier into a rural environment, with the partnership of local affordable housing economic actors <ref>L'Economie solidaire en mouvement, Josette Combes, Brunos Lasnier, Jean-Louis Laville, Erès, 2023</ref>.

The Régies the Quartier exist in the areas where public services are scarce or insufficient and the inhabitants feel a need to involve themselves in the day-to-day life of the area/neighbourhood. It has a legal status of [[Associations]] and has a democratic governance: the inhabitants are the core of the project, they express their dayly needs in the public space of their district and are part of the participatory decisions process. It is thus part of SSE and contribute to the co-construction and co-production of public policies with the their elected representatives.

Some of their fields of action are: 
* contribute to the political urban management of the area in a process of local democracy
* propose new services;
* Mediation between inhabitants and other economic or political actors;
* sensibilisation to local problems and solutions in favour of an active citizenship;
* tackling unemployment and contributing to the economic integration of the unemployed;
* Trainings on the functioning of the "Régie" and on professional skills;
* transport: information on transport possibilities, social driving schools, collective transport services  community garages, etc.


== History of the concept==
In France, the "Régie de Quartier" system was initiated and finalised by the charter "Charte Nationale des Régies de Quartier", in 1991, three years after the creation of the CNLRQ, Comité National de Liaison des Régies de Quartier, then it was reinforced by the Manifesto in 1993. It participates in what was to become the [http://www.le-mes.org/ Mouvement de l'ESS (MES)] since its very beginning and participated at the international level, to the declaration of [https://www.socioeco.org/bdf_fiche-document-62_en.html the RIPESS Intercontinental Lima gathering in 1997].

== Main networks working on this issue ==

* In France, le Mouvement des régies, anciennement [https://www.lemouvementdesregies.org/ Le Comité National de Liaison des Régies de Quatier, CNLRQ.]
* At the European level, l'[https://www.lemouvementdesregies.org/laerdq Association Européenne des Régies de Quartier]


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