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Housing is necessarily a crucial issue for the French. It’s just as cool for the young tenant, who is having the worst difficulty in the world finding accommodation in Paris, as for the couple looking for a first property to buy, where this precarious family whose accommodation turns out to be unsanitary . So many issues for a campaign theme that brings both the question of purchasing power and ecology. And even, now, to immigration.
Nathalie Arthaud’s proposals
- Building social housing
- Guarantee affordable rents for the working classes
- Apply the law to requisition empty housing and “requisition apartments and offices belonging to large groups” to transform them into social housing
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan’s proposals
- Expand zero-rate loan, lease-accession contract for social housing
- Provide a state guarantee on part of the personal contribution
- Create a lease-accession contract to transform rent into monthly prepayment payments, with an option to purchase after a ten-year period
- Systematic eviction of squatters from private properties
- Adapting the housing of elders to allow them to stay at home
Anne Hidalgo’s proposals
- Build 150,000 social housing units per year, one third of which are very social housing units
- Generalize rent control in all tight areas
- Create a “housing shield” an additional means-tested allowance so that no household is forced to spend more than a third of its income on housing
- Create public land to facilitate access to property
Yannick Jadot’s proposals
- Open access to bank credit to be able to access the property
- Dedicate 10 billion per year to halving energy consumption
- Renovate in 10 years 5 million “thermal sieves”, these very poorly insulated habitats by advancing the cost of the works to the owners and by imposing the renovation of the rentals
- Build 700,000 new social housing units in five years, half of which are “very social”
- Developing rent control and establishing a universal guarantee
Jean Lassalle’s proposals
- Develop the principle of rental-accession to facilitate access to property
- Enforce the SRU Law, which imposes a proportion of social housing in certain municipalities
- Increase the amount of APL
Marine Le Pen’s proposals
- Giving French people priority access to social and student housing
- Create 100,000 social housing units per year, including 20,000 for students and young workers
- Create a rental guarantee fund to protect landlords.
- Offer a zero-rate loan to young couples (under 30) accessing homeownership, on the condition that at least one of the two spouses is French. This loan could reach 100,000 euros over ten years
Emmanuel Macron’s proposals
- A target of “700,000 homes renovated per year”
- Extend the public guarantee for tenants in order to facilitate access to housing while penalizing bad payers
- Give competence in terms of housing and the financing that goes with it to municipalities and intermunicipalities
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s proposals
- Re-insulate at least 700,000 homes per year
- Make the renovation of “thermal sieve” housing mandatory before any rental
- Build 200,000 public and ecological housing units per year for five years
- Restore public aid for HLMs
- Increase to 30% the quota of social housing in urban areas
- Control all rents and control them downwards in large cities
- Prohibit evictions
- Requisition empty homes and put them back on the market in better conditions if necessary
Valérie Pécresse’s proposals
- Regionalize housing policy
- Create priority housing rights for frontline workers
- Extend the benefit of the zero-rate loan to all of France to allow young people to buy their homes in rural areas or medium-sized towns
- Introduce more tax incentives to transform offices into housing
- Put in place a settlement strategy (no more than 30% social housing per district) to eradicate “urban ghettos” in ten years
- Extend the solidarity real estate guarantee, to cancel the additional insurance premiums
Philippe Poutou’s proposals
- Philippe Poutou has not made any accommodation proposals
Fabien Roussel’s proposals
- Renovate 500,000 thermal colanders per year thanks to a tenfold increase in the budget of the National Agency for the Improvement of Housing
- Budget 2 billion euros to replace the 3 million oil-fired boilers
- Upgrade and extend housing benefits
- Build 200,000 social housing units per year, to move towards a target of 30% social housing in urban areas
Eric Zemmour’s proposals
- Eliminate transfer duties for consideration on the acquisition of a residence for first-time buyers up to a value of 250,000 euros
- Give priority access to social housing to French single mothers and French people with jobs
- End of the acquired lease, review of the situation of tenants every two years
- Remove the SRU law and the DALO law
- Reserve APLs for the French
Methodology: for each of your answers, our simulator gives you more or less points compared to each candidate. At the end of the questionnaire, we offer you a list of candidates, starting with the one with whom you have the most points of agreement on all the questions asked. This “ranking” is obviously to be taken as an indication, given that it is not exhaustive, even if we have ensured the variety of questions. To give you a definitive opinion, we invite you in particular to consult all the programs of the candidates. You can find them here or on official sites.