Ten communities, including the city of Paris and the metropolises of Lyon, Lille or Strasbourg, announced on Tuesday the creation of the national association Act against vacant housing to better meet the housing needs of communities.
Today the aid offered to owners to rent out empty homes is not attractive enough, and therefore does not allow them to capture these homes, explained the first president of the association, Suzanne Brolly, also vice-president of Strasbourg Eurometropolis.
Today, we have reached the limit of the system, she added, with reference to the Loc’Avantage system, which came into force on March 1, and which offers owners a reduction in taxes if they offer their tenants a rent below market price.
Many experiments have been carried out, we want to speed up and improve the process, added Suzanne Brolly. We want local authorities to be associated when aid is created, to check that it corresponds to the needs of the territories.
The mobilization of the private park is a means of responding immediately to the needs of the territory, underlined Suzanne Brolly, recalling that 24,000 people are waiting for social housing in the metropolitan area of Strasbourg alone.
The association also plans to campaign to make energy-efficient home renovation schemes more attractive, while the law prohibits the rental of certain homes, the most energy-intensive, from January.
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Today, it costs less to go and consume agricultural land and build new than to go and renovate built heritage, we want to reverse that, continued the president of the association, pointing out the risk of degradation of the existing habitat and evoking the collapse of two Lille buildings on Saturday.
Existing schemes are not always suitable, I am thinking of the Denormandie scheme for example, which has not had much success even though it could enable goods to be put back on the market. We would need to make it sexier to generalize it, otherwise it will remain anecdotal, abounded Philippe Stephan, deputy mayor of Roubaix, also founding community of the association.
The cities of Rouen and Ajaccio, the metropolis of Grenoble, the department of Meuse and the community of Ardennes-Thirache are also among the founding members of the association, which presents itself as open to other members and apolitical. We will be stronger the more numerous we are, to the point Philippe Stephan.
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