The Social Union for Housing (USH), a confederation of social landlords, called for “a recovery plan through social housing” on Wednesday, the best way, according to it, to curb the housing crisis.
“It seems to us that we need to implement a recovery plan through social housing, not a recovery plan For but by social housing,” declared the president of the USH, Emmanuelle Cosse, at a press conference, calling for “taking land that no longer has projects” to build social housing.
According to the USH, 2.6 million households are waiting for social housing, a record.
“It is not 30,000 housing units in three years that will restart the machine,” added the general director Marianne Louis, referring to the “22 territories” which have committed to building 30,000 housing units in three years, a system announced by the Prime Minister. Minister, Gabriel Attal, during his general policy declaration.
The sector “which is at 82,000, or 125,000 housing units (built) per year a few years ago, is the HLM sector, it is the most effective in the recovery,” added Ms. Louis.
The day after the announcement of a public deficit higher than expected, Emmanuelle Cosse also recalled that there were today “quite a few business failures”, which “will obviously have an impact on construction sites “.
“We expected extremely strong, mobilizing responses and we had a slogan + offer, offer, offer + with announcements which are either technical, therefore very weak, or very worrying rumors about the decline or the removal of APL (personalized housing assistance, Editor’s note),” she declared again almost two months after the appointment of the liberal Guillaume Kasbarian for Housing.
Ms. Cosse also reaffirmed her opposition to the proposed reform of the SRU law (Solidarity and urban renewal), judging that the government was “off the mark”.
Adopted in 2000, the SRU law imposes on certain cities a quota of 20% or 25% of social housing by 2025.
Mr. Attal promised to reform it to include intermediate rental housing (LLI) in the count, with rents and income ceilings higher than in social housing, in order to help the middle classes find housing.
“The LLI is aimed at the upper middle class, don’t let anyone tell us that this is how we are going to achieve social diversity,” Ms. Cosse criticized again.