the housing disaster on the coronary heart of the electoral marketing campaign | EUROtoday

The letters and messages despatched on the social community Facebook, the appointments made with the workplace bear witness to this: the mayor (Les Républicains, LR) of Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Maider Arosteguy, is “continually questioned for housing needs”. “These are elderly people thrown out of their apartments, difficult couple separations, women victims of domestic violence… Housing is at the heart of my discussions with the people of Biarrot”summarizes the councilor.

The municipality has round thirty residences available to answer emergency conditions, however this city of 25,000 inhabitants, the place the speed of second houses exceeds 40%, has misplaced inhabitants because the flip of the 2000s and can’t accommodate its personal brokers. “We have municipal police officers who will live in Landes or Béarn, 40 kilometers, even 70 kilometers from here”explains the mayor of Biarritz, who will run for a brand new time period in March 2026.

At the identical time, any new development challenge within the municipality triggers “systematically four or five appeals from the neighborhood against the building permit, and we lose several years to produce these housingdeplores the elected official. People are very self-centered”. The appeals concern all forms of housing, however specifically HLM, whereas town could be very removed from respecting the proportion of social housing of 25% in its territory – it solely reaches 11%.

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