Does Paris have slums?

Question

I am writing a report on Paris, France while looking at pictures of it I never see slums or working class ares. Does it have a slummy area? If so tell me the names of two districts that are lower rate I could really use help.

Answer 1

"Slum" não é favela. É uma comunidade pobre.

Answer 2

When you take the train between Charles de Gaulle airport and the city center and take a good look out the window you can see several terrible slum areas consisting of cardboard houses covered with rags and pipes on the top serving as chimneys. They are usually under and around bridges to be safer from rain. But all this is actually outside the city of Paris which I believe ends at the highway ring called Peripherique.

Answer 3

I went to Paris this week and yes to my surprise they have slums.
I saw a complete village of some 20 caravans and run down cars under a bridge over the canal d'Ourcq near Bobigny (which is certainly in Paris). The families (with little children) looked like Kurds, Africans and Bangladeshi, most probably all of them illegal. Saw one of them later in the city with a trolly searching for cans, bottles, etc.

The next day I also saw a real tinseltown near the motorway in Saint Denis. The kind of towns you will only find in 'developing' countries.