Faced with the lack of pace in the construction of new housing, amplified by the health crisis, the government must announce Tuesday, September 28 at the HLM congress a series of measures to encourage local communities and lessors to launch projects.
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To absorb the increase in the number of households, to which can be added up to 1.4 million poorly housed people, between 210,000 and 325,000 housing units are to be built each year by 2030. But the sector has suffered a blow. 'stoppage in 2020, under the effect of Covid-19, with a decline of 14.7% of housing authorized for construction, to 381,600 housing units, and of 6.9% for housing starts to 376,600 housing units. More broadly, since 2017, the trend has been downward, far from the
“supply shock”
promised by Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign to achieve the long-sought, and very rarely achieved, goal of 500,000 constructions per year.
The inauguration by Prime Minister Jean Castex of the HLM Congress in Bordeaux comes as the government and social housing stakeholders signed a protocol in March for the construction of 250,000 new homes in two years.
"The recent evolution of the housing supply appears insufficient to meet"
the needs, and in particular in already tense areas, estimated the recent report of a commission chaired by the mayor of Dijon, François Rebsamen, for sustainable recovery housing construction.
This lack of supply is contributing to the rise in housing prices and rents in large metropolitan areas.
Support the “builder mayors”
Handed over to the Prime Minister last week, this report aims in particular to support
“builder mayors”
, both via
“an offensive discourse” in the
face of residents' reluctance but also via tax incentives for communities. It therefore proposes to authorize the municipalities to abolish the exemption from the housing tax currently in force during the first two years following the entry into service of new housing or to transfer the cost of the exemption to the State. the property tax from which the HLM benefit, and which is currently borne by the municipalities
"for the first five to ten years of service"
.
"We must give back to building mayors a return on investment"
, said François Rebsamen during a press conference.
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Other proposals in the report, such as the sustainability of the brownfield fund dedicated to financing the recycling of artificialised brownfields, have already been taken up by members of the government.
In addition, to support the construction of housing in tense areas, the government will pay 130 million euros to municipalities in November.
This aid was planned as part of the recovery plan for
"urban densification and renewal" and "aid for the revival of sustainable construction,"
said the Ministry of Housing at the end of last week.
