2024-04-26 15:25:07
The government wants to shake up the rules governing the additional rent, this additional rent which households in social housing must pay, as long as their resources exceed the ceilings in force for the allocation of HLM by at least 20%.
The Minister for Housing, Guillaume Kasbarian, indicated this a few days ago in “Les Echos”: “We must re-examine the relevance of continuing to occupy social housing for those who have largely exceeded the income ceilings, have been able to inherit, sometimes have a second home in their possession, and whose heritage – and this is the meaning of life – has evolved,” he argued.
Complexity risk
The cursors will therefore move with regard to the additional rent. The bill intended to increase the supply of affordable housing, which must be presented to the Council of Ministers at the beginning of May – probably on the 7th -, provides that an additional rent would henceforth be paid as soon as a household’s income exceeds 1 euro resource ceilings.
Instead of 80,000 households paying an additional rent today, according to the Social Union for Housing (USH) – or 3% of those subject to the annual survey on resources – the figure would increase to just over 200,000 . Knowing that the additional rent system only applies to a little over 60% of the stock.
The bill, on the other hand, does not specify, at this stage, how this additional rent would be calculated. Logically, the levels should vary depending on the extent of the overrun. The USH, which brings together HLM organizations, also fears a lot of complexity when it comes to tenants who will barely exceed the resource ceilings.
Cas d’exemption
The lines should also move regarding the termination of the lease of households who have become “too rich” to reside in social housing. Today, this concerns tenants whose resources are, for two consecutive years, greater than 150% of the resource ceilings. They are then notified of their notice of dismissal by the lessor and have two years to vacate the premises.
With the future law, this rate would be reduced to 120%. Here again, however, there are cases of exemption: for those over 65 or for people with disabilities, authorized in all cases to stay in the premises.
Statistics are lacking regarding the number of leases terminated each year due to excessive income. “We carried out a survey in 2018-2019 among landlords and we then identified 8,000 registered letters sent to tenants to notify them of their notice of termination,” indicates Marianne Louis, general director of USH.
However, she believes that “if we put aside Paris or a few towns on the Swiss border [où le niveau des loyers du parc privé est particulièrement élevé, NDLR] people often leave because of overpayments, before receiving such mail. »
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