FFaced with inflation in energy prices which is undermining the wallets and the morale of the French people, the government has drawn up tariff shields supposed to protect them.
However, parliamentarians, mayors, presidents or vice-presidents of departmental councils and metropolitan areas, all of us, presidents and administrators of public housing offices, we can demonstrate here to the government that hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens, tenants HLM, from this year, and nearly 2 million, from 2023, among the poorest, will pay more for their energy than other French people. Up to three times more expensive their collective gas heating, up to five times more expensive the collective electricity, the one that heats their accommodation or that supplies the lighting, the elevator, the equipment of their building.
Thus, for HLM offices alone, 600,000 social housing units are heated by a collective system powered by gas (540,000) or electricity (60,000). Since the liberalization of the energy markets, these collective heating systems (this is also true for private condominiums whose inhabitants are not all well off) can no longer benefit from regulated tariffs.
At market price
HLM organizations must then buy their energy at the market price. With each contract renewal, they have a few hours (when they have answers) to accept prices up to four or even five times higher than the regulated tariff frozen by the government at its October 2021 value.
Results ? For a citizen in direct contract with an energy supplier, the price shield guarantees him a gas price of 64 euros per megawatt hour (MWh). But this same citizen, if he is in HLM with collective heating, must pay the MWh of heating at 120, 140, 200 euros, according to market fluctuations.
Why ? Because the methods for calculating the gas tariff shield and the future electricity shield are made for those who are lucky enough to have the right to keep the regulated tariff. For others, the energy crisis is already of unprecedented intensity. Who can imagine that HLM tenants could withstand such a financial shock?
Some examples :
– In Nogent-le-Rotrou, in Eure-et-Loir, tenants in HLM have seen their heating bill reach 2,500 euros per year for a year instead of 700 euros.
In Vendée, in Seine-Saint-Denis, in Villeurbanne
– In Vendée, gas purchases to heat 6,700 households are quintupled for the year 2023.
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