Collectif API = Vincent Béal, Marine Bourgeois, Rémi Dormois, Yoan Miot, Gilles Pinson, Valérie Sala PalaNational audienceBased on a collective survey carried out between 2017 and 2020 on the restructuring of social housing allocation and settlement policies in six French agglomerations, this paper examines the categorisation processes at work in local social housing policies. First, we show that despite the legislative clarification of the principle of social mix and the reallocation of roles provided by the 2017 Equality and Citizenship Act, the majority of local actors continue to mobilise previous ethnoracial categories. Ethnoracial referents still occupy a salient place in the social representations of actors and the way they perceive ...