this provision has been severely criticised by social housing advocates for allowing welloff areas to escape their obligations and many prosperous municipalities such as neuillysurseine have taken advantage of it so far to resist the government s efforts to make them increase their stock of social housing scanlon and whitehead in practice social rental housing often concentrates lowincome households in deprived urban neighbourhoods that offer lowquality public services and little access to job opportunities which exacerbates urban social exclusion in chile for example areas identified for social housing construction were not always equipped with proper urban infrastructure facilities or services and connectivity between social housing and job centres is often deficient oecd e