2023-07-12 11:25:05
The government announced on Wednesday a 66% increase in the annual budget of Ma Prime Rénov ‘, a flagship housing renovation aid scheme, which will be increased from 2.4 to 4 billion euros for 2024, during a National Council for Ecological Transition in Paris.
«We will increase the budget for Ma Prime Rénov’ to 4 billion euros, an increase of 1.6 billion euros“said Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, referring to an increase”unprecedentedduring the presentation of the government’s ecological planning strategy.
These additional credits are part of the additional 7 billion euros mobilized in 2024 to double the rate of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in France and meet the objectives for 2030, announced last Saturday. In the 2023 budget, the state’s climate investments represented around 25 billion euros, according to Matignon. France must, by 2030, reduce its emissions by 50% compared to 1990 levels, in accordance with the new objectives of the European Union. It was approaching -25% reduction in 2022.
Nearly 500 complaints
Since its launch in 2020, Ma Prime Rénov ‘has helped more than 1.5 million French people to embark on an energy renovation project for more than 5.6 billion euros committed, had declared to the mid-June, before a senatorial committee, the Minister of Housing Olivier Klein, referring to a “historical dynamics initiated under the previous five-year term“. In 2023, the budget for this aid was extended by only 100 million euros compared to 2022.
Last October, the Defender of Rights had nevertheless highlighted numerous dysfunctions in access to Ma Prime Rénov ‘, a system piloted by the National Housing Agency (Anah). With nearly 500 complaints in two years on this subject, it targeted in particular the online portal where users had to create an account to take their steps. The malfunctions of this portal could have consequences in the payment of aid, which targets low-income households, and plunge some into precariousness.
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