The conflict opposes Prilly and the State of Vaud over building land. A court therefore considered the matter last week after the intervention of the tenant association, Asloca

The land is intended to become a housing cooperative for 200 affordable housing units. A tug of war has been opposing the municipality of Prilly for more than two years, which has used its right of pre-emption on a plot by withdrawing it from potential private buyers, and the Canton, which considers that it did so in a problematic manner. The problem that arises is that this land was pre-empted by the Municipality, but the 62 million francs it cost were paid directly by the SCHL, the Lausanne housing cooperative to which it wishes to transfer it without having gone through a procedure opening up to competition. The a Constitutional Court rejected Asloca's request, considering that the regulation is in accordance with higher law and that its interpretation by the Council of State is correct. According to Asloca, “insofar as municipalities do not have unlimited resources, they must be able to use other resources from third parties such as private actors or cooperatives in particular, which should even be encouraged