The Prime Minister is launching a consultation on Friday with elected officials from intermunicipalities to decentralize housing policy, with the aim of giving them more responsibilities to fight more effectively against the raging crisis, announced Matignon.
Lisabeth Borne is expected in Orleans on the occasion of the 33rd convention of Intercommunalits de France, an association which brings together nearly 1,000 communities of municipalities, urban communities, conurbation communities and metropolises.
Today, there are skills which are shared both by the municipal bloc (municipalities and intercommunalities, editor’s note), by the departments and by the state. The objective is that we can simplify everything (…) to facilitate the construction of housing, to also reduce prices, said Matignon.
The government aims to present a bill on the decentralization of housing policy in spring 2024.
The main actor in this policy at the local level would become the intercommunality in most territories and departments in rural areas. They would be entrusted with the compulsory competence of housing organizing authority (AOH), a status created by the 3DS law of 2022, everywhere in the territory.
Among the transfers envisaged are also housing production and renovation schemes such as MaPrimeRnov’, but also authorizations to create new social housing or tools to better regulate the real estate market (zoning, rights of first refusal).
Will we transfer (…) emergency accommodation, the Dalo (enforceable right to housing, editor’s note)? Everything must be discussed with the communities, added the services of Élisabeth Borne.
The question of revenues made available to local levels to exercise these new powers remains open, even if this should come back to the question of redefining the tax tools that exist, the same source said.
We have been talking about it for several years, finally the subject is the political agenda, declared to AFP Jerme Baloge, mayor (Radical Party) of Niort and president of the Niortais agglomeration community.
We will be in control of our ability to act in matters of housing and housing, we will have the tools, engineering and funding to act as closely as possible, which does not remove the state’s ability to guide, he said. he adds.