Gabriel Attal assured Wednesday that he wanted to “go after all possible housing with his teeth”, with the objective that the “supply shock” announced by the executive produces “tangible results in the next three years. »
“I have declared an emergency for housing in France.” “We are going to fight centimeter by centimeter, square meter by square meter to find housing for the French. We are going to look for all possible housing with our teeth,” declared the Prime Minister during a site visit to Villejuif (Val-de-Marne).
“The objective is to guarantee concrete, tangible results in the next three years,” continued the head of government, who was accompanied by the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu and the new Minister for Housing, Guillaume Kasbarian.
The government has selected 22 “territories committed to Housing” which will undertake to build, within three years, approximately 1,500 housing units each, or 30,000 in total.
“First 22 territories in which we will put public money to balance a certain number of operations, which otherwise would not have been able to come off the ground in the short term, and in which we will drastically simplify the procedures,” explained Mr. Attal, citing in particular Villejuif, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Marseille, Saint-Malo, Ferney-Voltaire, Biarritz.
To facilitate construction, the Prime Minister also mentioned “elevation, particularly in the city”. “We will continue to build, in particular by raising a certain number of buildings.” “In Ile-de-France, there will be an investment, including financial from the State, and I hope that from 2025 we will build vertically in all the major cities of France,” he said.
The head of government also mentioned the “individual house”, which is “part of the French dream”. However, “often, around the pavilions, there is still space that we sometimes don’t know what to do with.” “We will considerably simplify the procedures for those who wish, so that they can have additional housing built on their land,” he advocated.
Among the other measures outlined, the facilitation of the transformation of offices into housing via procedural simplifications for mayors, as well as “the creation of reversible building permits”, which can go from an office building to a housing building.
Mr. Attal also wants the production of intermediate rental housing to be doubled, offered at regulated rates but higher than social housing, “in the years between now and the end of the five-year term”. An objective already mentioned by Élisabeth Borne in November.
“And then there is obviously an issue on demand, in particular all the work carried out with the banks to facilitate access to credit,” added Mr. Attal.