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It was while I was reading the local council's magazine where I live in Saint-Denis,
a Paris suburb, that a small article caught my eye.
It was about the demolition of a foyer de travailleurs migrants,
housing built for immigrant workers.
Once it's gone, it will be replaced with a new résidence sociale, social housing,
for young professionals and those trying to get on the property ladder, the article said.
I was intrigued about what would happen to those who used to live there,
and so I decided to find out more.
Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service with assignment from France.
It's too much.
Now they want to throw us old retirees out, says Bayademou Koulibaly.
He's 71 years old from Mali in West Africa, but has been living in France for over 50 years.
For most of that time, home has been this foyer.
Housing built especially for France's immigrant workers.