The Court of Auditors proposes, in a report published on Wednesday, to reform the enforceable right to housing (Dalo) to avoid making it a source of disillusionment.
This right, which came into force in 2008, obliges the state to urgently offer a housing solution to people who are deprived of it or live in precarious situations (threat of eviction without rehousing, unsanitary housing, etc.)
The people recognized as eligible for the Dalo but without a proposed solution are more and more numerous: more than 78,000 at the end of February 2021, or 23% of the 334,000 eligible since 2008.
At issue: the number of relocations, stable at around 20,000 per year, which does not follow the increase in the number of recognitions of this right, which has increased from around 25,000 in 2016 to nearly 35,000 in 2019.
Ile-de-France is particularly affected. At the end of 2020, it concentrated more than 80% of the national total of Dalo households remaining to be rehoused.
The penalty payments paid by the state in the absence of a solution (129.2 million euros from 2015 to 2020) and the cost of examining requests (not quantified) weigh on public finances, notes the Court of Auditors.
To improve the situation, the institution proposes to reduce the scope of application of the Dalo and to exclude people already living in social housing, who can currently claim it if they have submitted a request for rehousing processed within an abnormal timeframe. long.
She also suggests restoring the absolute primacy of the Dalo, which sometimes becomes one priority among others, while it theoretically overrides all other emergency situations.
Communities refusing a Dalo household with too low incomes on the pretext of social diversity (to avoid creating neighborhoods where the proportion of poor households is too high) should be obliged to offer an alternative, adds the Court.
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The prefects should be able to sanction donors who refuse a beneficiary without valid reason, whereas the state is today the only one liable to pay penalty payments if the Dalo is not respected.
The Court also suggests proposing, in territories whose urban organization, transport networks and living areas are integrated beyond administrative borders, rehousing in another department, as is already the case in Ile -of France.
It also proposes to clarify and simplify the procedures, as well as to improve the information systems devoted to the Dalo, which are sometimes obsolete.