The Government publicizes double the funds dedicated to city renovation in 2026 | EUROtoday

Urban renovation isn’t buried. The Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, introduced, Thursday, June 12, a cost of 116 million euros in 2026 to the National Agency for Urban Renovation (ANRU), twice as a lot as in 2025, and a prefiguration mission to pursue this public coverage.

First step to develop a brand new city renewal program, this prefiguration mission has been extensively applauded by an meeting of actors in city renovation, gathered in Paris by the ANRU for 2 days of conferences. She should decide “The conditions that will define the future of urban renovation”particularly the mechanisms to finance initiatives and their targets, mentioned the minister, who stays open to all choices.

For the president of the ANRU, Patrice Vergriete, “This is an agreement in principle for the implementation of a third urban renewal program” and so “Good news” For this metropolis coverage designed to vary the face of the previous massive units.

This announcement was additionally welcomed by Emmanuelle Cosse, president of the Social Union for Housing, a confederation of social landlords who partially finance the ANRU. “It’s a major issue” And “We cannot procrastinate on the future of urban renovation”she reacted to the France-Presse company (AFP), earlier than including: “Just with us, social landlords, we have already identified needs. »» Valérie Létard said he wanted “Make sure there are no hollows, a air hole between an urban renewal program and another”.

Risk of blockages of certain projects

As for the 116 million euros promised, they are more than twice higher than the 50 million euros paid by the State in 2025, but however well below the 270 million euros claimed by the ANRU. Patrice Vergriete had alerted to the risk of blocking certain projects for redeveloping neighborhoods if the State did not pay its share of the financing of the second urban renovation program.

Launched in 2014, this new National Urban Renewal Program (NPNRU) provides for 12 billion euros in spending until 2030 and is funded by the joint Action Housing (8.4 billion), by social landlords (2.4 billion euros) and by the State (1.2 billion).

“The government’s commitment is that the envelope that the State owes to the ANRU is honored”assured Valérie Létard. The prefiguration mission “Is a victory, we left from afar”said the minister, moved to defend the urban renewal policy before her mentor, Jean-Louis Borloo, who founded the ANRU in 2004 and affirms that preserving it is still “His fight every day”.

Nothing is won for the moment, according to Emmanuelle Cosse, because “As long as there is no law providing for a new urban renewal program, there is a fear” that this policy stops. “It is a historic act, as in 2004 when the Anru’s creation and in 2014 with the launch of the NPNru”rejoices Patrice Vergriete.

“It is very important for the inhabitants of the neighborhoods, for the French model of sustainable city. There are millions of French people concerned, who do not live with dignity, who are in a situation of energy precariousness, who are experiencing stigma because of their address ”nonetheless defends the president of the ANRU, former minister of housing. He believes that the ANRU should additionally “Better understand the new challenges of the urban transition”amongst which adaptation to the change and getting old of the inhabitants.