To produce housing, while land reserves are exhausted, the municipality intends to “adapt the existing”. In particular by transforming old garages or hotels, but also by imposing housing in the new office buildings.
by Véronique Chocron
At 25 rue Louise Bourgeois, in the 13 e arrondissement of Paris, the Watt tower has lengthened after a complex operation – and still rare in the capital – of elevation, four levels. Led by the ICF Habitat operator, SNCF housing subsidiary, this achievement completed in 2021, made it possible to create nineteen small social housing in the floors added to the building, at a overall cost of more than 11 million euros. The price to pay to densify the real estate assets in a city where land reserves are exhausted. Porte de la Villette, it is an old pound that has been transformed to create 75 social housing units and, in the 8 e arrondissement, rue Laborde, a garage will allow to deliver eighteen family social housing and intermediaries; These two projects were co-piloted by the landlord Paris Habitat.
such conversion operations could become one of the main sources of production of Parisian apartments in the future. Taking note of the scarcity of new constructions opportunities, the new housing plan for the capital by 2035, presented Wednesday November 16 at the Paris Council, is based on the principle of “adapting the existing”. It sets the objective of producing more than 4,000 social housing units and as many “affordable” housing each year, at least 20 % below market rents, for middle classes. A sustained effort, while “in 2021, only 4,000 social housing units and 200 intermediate dwellings were approved”, specifies the town hall.
What to achieve a very ambitious objective of 40 % of public housing in the capital by 2035, or 30 % of rental social housing and 10 % affordable housing.
The march will be high, since the Parisian municipality counted, in early 2021, just over 22 % of social housing (and almost 25 % taking into account those which are funded, deliverable in the coming years) and 4 % intermediate housing.
By seeking to go beyond the objective of 25 % social housing set by the law “SRU” (solidarity and urban renewal), Paris says he wants to align himself with a metropolis like Vienna and its 45 % of “subsidized housing”; The Austrian capital, which began the constitution of its social park a century ago, is an exception in Europe.
preemption of buildings and office reconversions
“We want to protect as many Parisians as possible from real estate speculation, explains Ian Brossat, the (communist) assistant to housing at the town hall of Paris. And to make those who work in Paris can live there, While the city loses residents every year because they no longer have the means to stay there. “
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