Deputies propose, in a report published Wednesday, to oblige the tenants of HLM exceeding a certain threshold of income to leave their housing.
The co-rapporteurs of the text, Daniel Labaronne (Renaissance) and Charles de Courson (independent group Liot), propose to lower by 20% the income threshold beyond which a tenant of social housing must leave it.
For a single person outside Ile-de-France, this threshold would drop from 41,221 euros to 32,977 euros per year. They propose to do the same for rent supplements, by making them pay any household exceeding the income ceiling to be eligible for social housingwhereas today it must be exceeded by 20%.
A principle of equity and social justice
It is a principle of equity and social justice, justified Daniel Labaronne in a press conference. This measure is part, according to the deputies, of a logic aimed at putting vacant housing back on the market.
Skeptical about the usefulness of taxing vacant housing, they want to relaunch social homeownership and to allow more households to benefit from joint real lease, a form of home ownership that dissociates buildings and land.
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Both reads also offer remove the corporate tax exemption from which social landlords benefit, to reserve it only for those who build new housing.
They want to reinforce the evaluation of the budgetary and tax measures (particularly the reduced VAT rates) applied to housing, to which 1.5% of GDP is devoted.
Finally, they claim that students from wealthy families can no longer benefit from housing aid (APL) if they remain attached to the tax household of their parents, a measure which, according to Charles de Courson, was almost unanimous among the political groups.
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