The Social Union for Housing, which brings together French social housing organizations, fears a “housing crisis” in the coming years, according to it lack of a sufficient number of HLM projects undertaken since 2018.
“We are paying for the absence of a national discourse carried and embodied on the need to build social housing (…) We are really here in the process of constituting the elements of a housing crisis for the years to come”, lamented the president of the USH, Emmanuelle Cosse.
“The public authorities, in 6 months (after the presidential and legislative elections, editor’s note), will have to understand that they will have a housing crisis to manage in the next five-year term”, warned the former Minister of Housing under the presidency of François Hollande (2016-2017).
In 2021, the number of approvals, that is to say the number of authorizations to create social housing, listed by the USH is 92,700 according to provisional figures, and should definitely settle around 95 or 96,000, specified its general manager, Marianne Louis.
The number of applicants for a place in social housing is 2.2 million, detailed Emmanuelle Cosse.
The increase in housing prices in the private park also creates more tension, including in territories spared until then, she explained, citing for example the Pays de la Loire or the Normandy hinterland. .
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“What they (social landlords, Editor’s note) see happening in their queue are workers, including farm workers or employees, who until then could access the private park,” she said.
The USH has also announced its desire to challenge presidential candidates on the subject of housing in early March, alongside the Abbé-Pierre Foundation and the French Building Federation.
“I do not see how we can not put housing at the heart of a presidential project,” said Emmanuelle Cosse.