Authorizations for new social housing will be less than 100,000 in mainland France in 2022 for the third consecutive year, the president of the Social Union for Housing (USH), Emmanuelle Cosse, announced on Wednesday. “Approvals (authorizations, editor’s note) for social housing will still be low in 2022, perhaps they will be a little less bad than last year, but in any case there will be less than 100,000 approved housing units”, said the former housing minister of François Hollande
In 2021, there were just under 95,000 housing approvals in mainland France financed by the national stone aid fund, far from the objectives set by the government and donors. “This finding in France also applies to the overseas territories, where production is showing a worrying slowdown,” added Emmanuelle Cosse.
She called on the government to reverse the reduction in solidarity rents (RLS), a “lazy tax” according to her, which since 2018 has forced social landlords to reduce their rents to compensate for the reduction in housing aid (APL) paid to tenants. . A recurring claim from the USH, which constantly criticizes the budgetary savings to the detriment of social housing made under Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term.
Renewable energies in the priorities for 2023
“The situation is not good in terms of housing and it is not good in terms of social housing”, added the former national secretary of Europe Ecology, the debt of HLM organizations having increased by 3, 5 billion euros in 2022 due to the increase in the rate of the livret A, which is used to finance them.
The USH will dedicate the year 2023 to “the voluntary commitment of the HLM movement in favor of renewable energies and the protection of biodiversity”, promised Emmanuelle Cosse, calling for more subsidies to carry out the energy renovation of social housing. .