According to elected officials, the increase in the price of land explains the decrease of 50 % construction in four years, which results in a glaring lack of HLM. For private promoters, it is rather the refusal of mayors to sign building permits that are in question.
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The Lyon region is experiencing an unprecedented housing crisis. Production is in free fall, with a drop in construction of around 50 % in the past four years. The Metropolis of Lyon counted less than 3,600 dwellings delivered in 2021. Far from the target of 8,000 dwellings produced per year that the second agglomeration of France wishes to reach, as part of its local urban plan and Habitat.
This accommodation deficit results in a glaring lack of social housing. As the city is preparing to welcome the HLM congress, from September 27 to 29, its difficulties should illustrate the debates of the 12,000 participants expected. “The trend is national. We record 2.3 million requests for only 1.6 million entries in social housing,” summed up Emmanuelle Cosse, president of the Social Union for Housing, on the occasion of ‘A presentation of the congress, September 12 in Lyon.
“For many people, it is very difficult to find accommodation in Lyon, the social sector is saturated, we record an offer for ten requests,” said Grégory Doucet, mayor (EELV) in Lyon. The city managed to build 1,432 social housing units in 2021, and hopes to reach within two years the 25 % threshold of the housing park, in accordance with the SRU law. An affordable rent residence, made up of a hundred social housing, is under construction, at the birthplace of Father Pierre, in the 4 e arrondissement. But this symbolic project will not be enough to respond to the 30,000 housing requests made from social landlords, with a waiting period of two and a half years.
On the metropolis scale, including fifty-nine municipalities including Lyon, the challenge is multiplied. The community, chaired by Bruno Bernard (EELV), ambition at the start of mandate the production of 5,000 social housing units per year, by 2026, as well as 1,000 united lease dwellings (BRS), an anti -capulative device, which Allows to dissociate the land from the building. The current rhythm of construction compromises these objectives. So much so that the metropolis imagines other methods of production of housing, such as the elevation of existing buildings. She has just asked each of the three main social landlords in her territory to provide her with a list of three buildings for building. Another recent initiative: the vote of a budget of 10 million euros to help the municipalities to finance public facilities, in exchange for an effort to relaunch construction on their territory.
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