Both housing stakeholders and voters are impatiently awaiting the proposals of candidate Emmanuel Macron, which have so far remained terse, while all the other applicants have already, on several occasions, detailed theirs. “There is no revolution”, warns Xavier Lépine, “housing relay” of the outgoing president’s campaign team, or his adviser on the matter. The former manager of La Française, an asset management company in particular real estate, answers, alone, the questions of the Worldsince Mickaël Nogal, associated with this work when he was a deputy (La République en Marche, LRM), recently resigned to take over the management of the National Association of Food Industries.
It is therefore to be expected “continuity, after laying down the fundamentals”as explained, on March 9, before social landlords, building professionals and the Abbé Pierre Foundation, Emmanuelle Wargon, Minister of Housing and, that day, spokesperson for the candidate.
More than a program, these are rather, listening to Mr. Lépine, some tracks and basic principles whose detail is referred to “negotiations” later.
“The supply shock promised in 2017 has not taken place”
On the construction of new housing, Emmanuel Macron does not venture, unlike his competitors, to display a quantified objective: “We must produce where we need it”summarizes Xavier Lépine, acknowledging that “the supply shock promised in 2017 did not take place, because the act of building is complex, mobilizes a multitude of actors, promoters, planners and first of all the 35,000 “housing ministers” who are the mayors and who, due to multiple constraints, do not issue enough building permitshe diagnoses. This is why we first propose entrusting the intermunicipalities [qui sont un peu moins de 1 300 en France] enhanced competence to grant building permits. »
The mayors, on the front line facing their constituents, will they therefore be short-circuited, deprived of this competence? On such an explosive proposal, Mr. Lépine remains cautious: “It is to be negotiated, in a contract of confidence with the State, accompanied by financing, for example aid for stone, and it may need a law”he recalls.
The only precise figure for the program, the 125,000 social housing units to be delivered each year, better, therefore, than the 95,000 launched in 2021. “The Caisse des dépôts affirms that social landlords have the means, otherwise we will finance them and the abolition of the solidarity rent reduction [RLS, infligée depuis 2018 aux bailleurs sociaux et qui s’élève, depuis 2019, à 1,5 milliard d’euros par an] would be a leadsays Xavier Lépine.
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