The social housing giant Action Logement announced on Friday that it had adopted its 2023 budget with a contribution to building aid less than half of what the government asked of it, which deemed this effort “insufficient”.
The social partners of Action Logement Groupe, meeting in the Board of Directors, voted unanimously, Friday, November 25, their budget for 2023, indicated in a press release to the former 1% Housing, co-managed by employers and unions.
The group, which also manages aid for professional mobility and the Visale rental guarantee, proposes to include a contribution of 150 million euros to the National Fund for Stone Aid (Fnap), which finances the construction and renovation of social housing.
This is half less than the 300 million euros on which the government was counting in its draft budget 2023 unveiled in September, a puncture which had provoked furious reactions from the organization and the social partners.
The Board of Directors proposed to include in the group’s budget the payment of a voluntary contribution of EUR 150 million to the National Stone Aid Fund, as the social partners had undertaken to do vis–vis the Ministers of the Transition Energy and Housing, says the group.
This provision will have to be confirmed within the framework of the discussions between the State and the group on the five-year agreement 2023-2027, adds Action Logement.
Way to put pressure on the government, which must decide whether to reinstate the finance bill contribution of 300 million euros, removed Thursday by the Senate.
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This effort, which marks an evolution compared to the initial refusal of any contribution in September, nevertheless remains insufficient with regard to the needs of social landlords, reacted the entourage of the Minister Delegate for Housing Olivier Klein.
The State expressed itself in favor of this initial budget, within the legal framework which allows it, the Minister is assured, adding that the sum of 300 MEUR is therefore necessary and this need will be expressed again in the parliamentary discussions.
An agreement on a new draft initial budget (from Action Logement, editor’s note) even to guarantee the group’s actions in 2023 will be sought with Action Logement very quickly.
Action Logement must negotiate a five-year agreement with the State by the end of the year, which will define the amount of its contribution to the National Agency for Urban Renovation (Anru) and to the Action cur de ville (ACV) program, two pillars of land use planning.