The government will set up a tariff shield for collective heating with electricity, thus correcting a flaw in the device, while “working” on a shield for the common areas, announced Thursday the Minister Delegate for the City and Housing , Oliver Klein.
We will (…) put in place a price shield for collective heating and electricity and we are also working to set up a price shield for common areas, Mr. Klein announced at the end of the 82nd HLM Congress in Lyon.
The 5.2 million or so families living in social housing benefit, like other individuals, from the electricity price shield, which limits the rise in energy bills despite soaring prices. Those heated by gas are also covered by a tariff shield.
But about 100,000 social housing units, which have collective electricity heating, are not covered, ie around 2% of the social housing stock. This is an exception, their HLM complexes having been classified as companies, explained in mid-September the Minister for Energy Transition, Agns Pannier-Runacher.
Olivier Klein also announced a five-year plan for Housing First, a program launched in 2017, which has enabled 390,000 homeless people, on the streets or in accommodation centers to access housing. We will have the means, with 44 million additional euros in the finance bill for 2023, indicated the minister.
In her closing speech, Emmanuelle Cosse, president of the Union sociale pour l’habitat (USH), which represents social landlords, recalled that the HLM sector had too often been dismissed as a simple sector of activity in which the state could save money.
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She noted a drop in the number of new homes, a sharp slowdown in social homeownership and a faster than expected drying up of landlords’ own funds, calling for contribution mechanisms.
Faced with the increase in tenants’ charges despite the tariff shield, the former Minister of Housing also called on the government to revalue the flat rate portion of personalized housing aid (APL).
She also called for a control of building land prices, believing that the government’s Zero Net Artificialisation (ZAN) strategy would make building land rarer and come by edge effect unduly enrich the holders of building land.