Creating a supply shock and encouraging mobilization: these are the objectives of the government which, faced with the housing crisis, is presenting its housing bill at the beginning of May. In addition to wanting to accelerate the construction of new housing, the executive also presents its ideas to promote mobility within the social housing stock.
Have “a smoother residential journey”
Among the solutions proposed: expel French people who exceed the resource ceiling to have more mobility in the park. The bill therefore proposes that households exceeding the ceilings by 120% will have to leave their accommodation 18 months after having exceeded the threshold for the first time. Around 30,000 households would be affected, estimates the Ministry of Housing.
“We need to have what we call a more fluid residential pathway. That is to say, when we enter social housing, it is because we need it. And then because sometimes we works, we can inherit, we can have an improvement in our situation, so we do not necessarily have the vocation to stay in social housing all our life”, explains on the set of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews, Guillaume Kasbarian .
“Social housing is a moment in life”
“Social housing must go as a priority to those who have been waiting for years sometimes to be able to benefit from social housing and who are not getting by today,” continues the Minister Delegate in charge of housing, assuring that they need “ more mobility within the park and this is the meaning of one of the provisions of this bill which will improve the rotation of the social park. Concretely, this means that when you are at the ceiling, you will start to pay this. which is called an excess rent And then, if you exceed the ceiling by more than 20%, approximately over two years, at that time, the lessor will ask you to vacate your accommodation so that you can live in the accommodation. free,” he explains.
“Excess rent concerns, for example, in Paris a household with two children who earns 8,000 euros,” he explains, estimating that with such a high income, there was no possibility of housing in the private park. “It’s a question of reality, of social justice. Using social housing for those who need it most.” And added: “Social housing is a moment in life, but it is not a right for life. Social housing for life does not exist,” he concludes.