“The decentralization of housing policy is a continuation of the State’s disengagement from social housing” | EUROtoday

NOTWe, social landlords, native elected officers in widespread cities, want to categorical our concern concerning the present housing disaster, and concerning the discounted measures proposed by the federal government and the President of the Republic in latest months. The scenario is extra alarming than ever. Today, in Île-de-France, almost 800,000 households are in search of social housing, 2.4 million in France.

Less than one in ten requests for social housing is glad annually. At the identical time, rents are at their highest, and fees are growing sharply. Accession and particularly social entry to property are at a standstill, the variety of mortgage agreements having plummeted given the financial context. The latest revolts which have taken place in our working-class neighborhoods additionally categorical a necessity for extra respectable housing and public companies.

Here, it’s the communities and HLM organizations which have their palms soiled and should handle a social disaster of unprecedented scale. Gathered through the HLM Congress, in Nantes, in October 2023, we had been in a position to take inventory of the bulletins, particularly these of Patrice Vergriete, then minister liable for housing, who confirmed the will for decentralization of housing coverage, with out help our organizations. But, with out vital monetary sources, all of the measures is not going to be as much as the suffocation that social housing is experiencing in France.

The danger of reinforcing the specialization of social housing

Thus, the will to decentralize housing coverage is a part of the continuity of the progressive disengagement of the State from social housing: strengthening of the solidarity lease discount system (RLS), which locations all of the burden on landlords. cost of the discount in personalised housing help (APL) resulting in an automated discount in rents, approximate implementation of the regulation regarding solidarity and concrete renewal (SRU) which doesn’t forestall violations of the regulation of sure communities which consequently don’t make their share of effort to construct and home the working courses.

Announcing the decentralization of housing coverage and blindly strengthening the facility of mayors within the allocation of social housing quantities to utterly shattering the cohesion and coherence of a very powerful public coverage serving the inhabitants. Shared for years between city halls, intermunicipalities, social landlords, Action Logement, and state companies, the allocation of HLM is a matter of total consistency.

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