Seven municipalities in the Rhône department lost their jurisdiction over building permits for collective housing on January 1 to the prefecture, penalized for their shortcomings in the construction of social housing.
The Rhne president announced in October that sanctions would be increased for municipalities in the department that do not comply with the Urban Solidarity and Renewal (SRU) law requiring 25% social housing by 2025.
Several decrees to this effect, which increase fines or take back certain powers from the town planning code from mayors, have just been published, the prefecture announced on Tuesday.
I am thinking of single-parent families, modest employees, often under 40 years old, looking for T1/T2 type housing, I enforce the law, declared the priest Fabienne Buccio, referring in a press release to a decision indicated by its magnitude.
In total, a deficiency was noted for 21 municipalities with a deficit in social housing, which achieved at best 64% of their three-year objective (2020-2022), at least 14.5%. Twelve are located in the territory of the Lyon metropolis, 9 in that of Nouveau Rhne (in the rest of the department).
For these 21 municipalities, this means that for a maximum of three years, the urban right of first refusal is transferred to the State, and an increase is applied to the annual financial levy to which any deficit municipality is subject.
The increase in this fine, which feeds local and national funds dedicated to supporting the production of social housing, amounts to between 59% and 312%.
And for the 7 municipalities which recorded an achievement rate of their 2020-2022 objectives of less than 33%, the State takes over the authority to examine building permits for collective housing.
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The targeted municipalities are Caluire-et-Cuire, Chaponnay, Chazay-d’Azergues, Mions, Saint-Genis-Laval, Saint-Symphorien d’Ozon and Tassin-la-Demi-Lune.
Authorization requests must therefore be sent by the municipality to the Departmental Directorate of Rhone Territories.
The prefecture recalls that 100,000 requests for social housing were submitted last year in the department and that less than one in ten requests ends up in the territory of the Lyon metropolitan area, where tension is even greater from year to year. .
The SRU law and the construction and housing code require municipalities with more than 3,500 inhabitants located in urban areas of more than 50,000 inhabitants to have at least 25% social rental housing. Municipalities which do not respect this rate must achieve a three-year objective of creating social rental housing.
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