He has worked in public works for almost twenty years.
And yet Alain, 38, has been sleeping in his car for two months.
Impossible for this separated father of three to find a roof over his head despite his gross salary of 2,200 euros.
This poignant testimony illustrates the deep crisis hitting the real estate sector, to which the magazine “France Grand Format”
,
presented by Marie Drucker, devotes its second issue (“Real estate, housing: the law of the jungle?”), broadcast this Tuesday March 19 at 9:10 p.m. on France 2, in partnership with Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France.
Soaring borrowing rates, shortage of new housing, proliferation of Airbnb rentals which is drying up supply on the traditional market... Since the Covid crisis, buying or renting has become an obstacle course for nearly one in five French people.
A social bomb ready to explode
Many people are forced to stay in housing that is too small, move away from their workplace or drastically scale back their plans.
Like Marjorie and Franck, who lost 100,000 euros of their budget in two years to hope to own the house of their dreams.
Every crisis has its profiteers from poverty, like this slumlord who demands 588 euros per month for 23 unsanitary m2 in a dingy house in the Lyon suburbs.
The documentary offers a 360-degree vision of this social bomb ready to explode and does not spare the legislator who imposes new standards in the name of ecology, but leaves the average person to deal with the administration.
The sequence on the twists and turns of energy renovation aid is the perfect illustration of this.