The SRU law which imposes on municipalities a rate of 20 or 25% of social housing has an
"undeniable effect"
on the production of social housing but has not achieved its objectives of social diversity, estimated the Court of Auditors in a report. published this Wednesday.
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“The 'SRU rate', the ratio between the number of social housing units and the total number of main residences, implicitly set up as a social mix rate by the legislator, has increased only slightly - by around five points between 2002 and 2016”
, underlines the Court in a report requested by the Senate finance committee.
Since 2000, the law relating to urban solidarity and renewal (SRU) requires municipalities with more than 3,500 inhabitants (1,500 in Ile-de-France) to have 20% of social housing by 2025, a higher rate. at 25% in 2014, except for municipalities which justify a specific local situation.
Unevenly applied in the territory
In terms of efficiency, the quota mechanism
"has undoubtedly had a positive effect on the overall production of social rental housing in the municipalities concerned"
but it is unevenly applied geographically, the Court considers.
In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, for example, 79 municipalities, out of a total of 158 subject municipalities, have not reached the quantitative target set for the period, she indicates.
And among the 1,035 municipalities covered by a three-year 2017-2019 report for the whole of France, only 485, or 47% of the whole, have reached their quantitative objective, she specifies.
According to the Court,
"it is now a given for all the players concerned that a significant number of municipalities will not have reached the 20% or 25% target of social rental housing provided for by law in 2025"
.
Moreover, if the mechanism
"appears to have had an undeniable effect on the production of social housing, it is less obvious that it has significantly contributed to developing urban and social diversity, the primary objective of the SRU law"
, adds. it rejects a
"simply quantitative vision of the production of social housing"
.