The government intends to encourage the exit from social housing of tenants who have “significantly exceeded the income ceilings’ The Minister for Housing Guillaume Kasbarian affirmed that more than 8% of HLM tenants would no longer be eligible for housing if they applied for one today. The text must also give more power to mayors in the allocation of social housing or in the decision to sell it, detailed the minister.
The minister also committed to maintaining “the target objectives of 20 to 25% of socialhousing” in the municipalities concerned by the SRU law (Solidarity and urban renewal), the upcoming reform of which has given rise to many concerns. The bill will be presented to the Council of Ministers in May, for examination in the Senate in June. It intends to require from social landlords a regular and obligatory assessment of ‘the personal, financial and property situation’ of social Housing tenants. “This will first allow us to question the renewal of the lease. And then toquestion the level of rents,” adds Guillaumes Kasbarians without giving further details.