The sustainable text, beyond its initial expiry of 2025, the legal rate of social housing at 20% or 25%, depending on the territories and depending on the level of rental tension.
Le Monde with AFP
The subject, already passed by the Senate, was the subject, Thursday, December 9, of several hours of debate in the context of the first reading examination at the National Assembly of the bill “3ds” (for “differentiation, decentralization, deconcentration and simplification”). This extensive assembly of measures aims to improve relations between the State and the communities in the issue of social housing.
MEPs finally gave the green light at a sustainability of the SRU (solidarity and urban renewal), which requires certain municipalities to have a minimum number of social housing, and voted adjustments, including possible exemptions. The aim is to “reconcile the need for housing, continue the social mix effort and take into account the constraints of the communes,” Olivier Becht (Haut-Rhin, acting, ally of the majority).
Pillar of Public Social Mixed Efforts, the December 2000 SRU Act is also the subject of multiple recriminations by municipalities that can not or do not want to achieve the objectives, at the risk of financial penalties.
The sustainable text, beyond its 2025 due date, the legal rate of social housing at 20% or 25%, according to the territories and depending on the level of rental tension. “Catch-up objectives” are planned for municipalities with the delay, with modalities of adaptation for those experiencing “objective difficulties”. Some adjustments are planned to adapt the exemption criteria, for example to better take into account the lack of attractiveness of certain municipalities, or to take into account low demand for social housing.
“not that happy effects “
The text also provides, to take into consideration the difficulties of certain municipalities, that they can pass with the State and the intercommunality a “contract of social mix”. These contracts “meet the needs of differentiation and territorialization exposed by many municipalities,” said the Minister of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon. The bill also plans to strengthen financial penalties for municipalities that do not meet the criteria set by law.
At 1 January 2019, on 2,091 municipalities concerned by the SRU law, 767 had reached the objective, 1,100 were deficit and 224 exempted.
The former Minister of Housing and MP (Group Freedoms and Territories) of Tarn-et-Garonne Sylvia Pinel supported the measured project submitted to the members, stressing that it was not necessary to touch the SRU device with “vigilance and parsimony “. Thibault Bazin (Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Republicans), however, recalled that this law “did not have a product that happy”, and highlighted the problem, in places, “the creation of neighborhoods to 100% social housing, which does not create mix “.
At the end of the session, shortly before midnight, the Communist MP Seine-Saint-Denis Stéphane has been able to adopt an amendment prohibiting the sale of social housing in cities not complying with the objectives of the SRU law. , in order not to reduce the number of these housing. M me Wargon and the rapporteur Mickaël Nogal (the Republic in March, Haute-Garonne), unfavorable to this amendment, argued that it could prevent, in these municipalities, the sale of social housing in tenants wanting to access the property.