NGOs call for building 400,000 homes per year... while limiting urban sprawl.

The Abbé Pierre and pour la Nature et l'Homme foundations believe that it is possible to fight against poor housing without artificializing even more land. They propose several avenues in a report published this Tuesday. The “zero net artificialization” (ZAN) objective, enshrined in the law, obliges France to halve, every ten years, the rate of erosion of natural spaces.