“A cry of alarm”: Renaissance MP David Amiel on Wednesday judged the situation of public officials in terms of housing “unsustainable,” in a report submitted to the government which recommends in particular reserving social and intermediate housing for civil servants.
“There is a global housing crisis” in France, noted the elected official from Paris on Wednesday during an exchange with the press.
“But to this general crisis is added a specific crisis: today, public sector agents are treated less well than private sector employees”, due to the lack of an organization equivalent to Action Logement in the public sector, a- he estimated.
To try to remedy this situation, David Amiel proposes both “immediate measures”, such as the extension of the Visale guarantee to public employees over 30 years old under the same conditions as in the private sector. If the measure is confirmed, it would extend the benefit of this free deposit only to civil servants earning less than 1,500 euros net per month or who have just been transferred.
The parliamentarian also recommends quickly drawing up a diagnosis, territory by territory, of the housing needs of public officials.
“The needs for social or intermediate housing, support for homeownership or temporary housing are very different from one territory to another,” he observes.
In the longer term, “the production of a new supply of housing for public employees who are no longer able to find housing is essential”, writes the MP in the report commissioned in November by the Minister of the Civil Service Stanislas Guerini.
Mr. Amiel also calls for “increasing partnerships between public employers and landlords to direct a certain number of intermediate housing units to public officials”.
To deal with the “social emergencies” of civil servants, he also asks to “establish a framework allowing housing within social residences or young workers’ homes to be allocated to public agents. »
Finally, the MP suggests facilitating the granting of subsidized loans by employers to their agents or employees, by making the tax and social framework of these loans more attractive.
David Amiel’s proposals will be formally submitted to the government this afternoon in Bordeaux, on the sidelines of the third Interministerial Committee on Housing for Public Agents.