My French Proficiency

Maximum Leader commented that he admired the French translations here at Fear and Loathing in Georgetown. I explained that my French sucks, which in hindsight is probably not exactly the case. After four years of college-level instruction, my French is actually pretty good. But I learn new vocabulary on an almost daily basis, so it feels like it sucks.

This headline is an example:

Le DAL réinstalle un campement de mal-logés rue de la Banque à Paris

The French love their acronyms, and I ignored the DAL part. I figured it's some social protest movement. Another thing the French love. But the rest is probably easy enough even for a monoglot: The DAL reinstalled a camp of [mal-logés] on Bank Street in Paris. Now, I left mal-logés untranslated on purpose because it's a new vocabulary word, and I thought I might share my thought process.

From the context, I figured it was some protest because why else would somebody camp out on a street in Paris. Or more to the point why would it be newsworthy? Then, I looked at the word. mal means bad. logé means lodged. Poorly-lodged, I thought to myself. What the heck does that mean? Sans domicile fixe, which, again, I think a monoglot can figure out, means homeless. What the heck is poorly-lodged?

So, I start reading the rest of the article in an attempt to discover its meaning.

Les occupants, des mal-logés en majorité originaires d'Afrique noire, sont allongés les uns à coté des autres, sur des matelas donnés par l'association Emmaüs, sur le trottoir contre un bâtiment prêté par la mairie de Paris et dénommé par le DAL "le ministère de la crise du logement". "Les engagements de l'Etat il y a un an de reloger 374 familles sans logis de la rue de la Banque, en échange du démontage du campement, n'ont pas été tenus car 233 familles restent sans logement"

Rough translation:
The occupants, the majority of whom are of African origin, are laid out one next to the other, on mattresses given by the Emmaüs Association, on the pavement across from a building lent by Paris town hall and named by the DAL "the ministry of the housing crisis". Agreements with the State made one year ago to rehouse 374 families without homes from Bank Street, in exchange for taking down the camp, were not lived up to because 233 families remain without housing"

I'm still not quite sure what mal-logés means exactly. Does it mean tent people? If so, aren't they homeless? I'm very confused, but I think it's a euphemism for homeless.