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Housing crisis: ways out of it

5/11/2023, 5:58:01 PM

Highlights: Housing is bad. Very bad. Production has never been so low. Just like sales. The government set up a National Council for Refoundation, dedicated to this theme, which brought together 200 experts for six months. He was supposed to deliver, on Tuesday, May 9, about twenty proposals to get out of the crisis, but the announcements were postponed until the end of the month. According to professionals, three major causes explain this situation: access to credit, rising construction costs and the reluctance of mayors to issue building permits.


We have never built so little in France and it's not going to get better. Professionals in the sector are alarmed and demand serious measures.

Housing is bad. Very bad. Production has never been so low. Just like sales. The government set up a National Council for Refoundation, dedicated to this theme, which brought together 200 experts for six months. He was supposed to deliver, on Tuesday, May 9, about twenty proposals to get out of the crisis, but the announcements were postponed until the end of the month. According to professionals, three major causes explain this situation: access to credit, which has hardened considerably in eighteen months, rising construction costs and the reluctance of mayors to issue building permits.

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