The SRU law, which imposes on municipalities a rate of 20% or 25% of social housing, will be perpetuated beyond 2025, its deadline, announced the Minister of Housing Emmanuelle Wargon in an interview with the
Journal du Dimanche
.
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“
The obligation to have 25% of social housing will not stop in 2025, it will become permanent.
Some municipalities said to themselves that it would be enough to wait a few years to reduce the ambition… From now on, they will no longer be able to play for time, they will have to continue their efforts until reaching the objective,
”declared Emmanuelle Wargon.
The minister added that this measure would be "
included in the 4D bill (on decentralization Editor's note) which will be presented in May to the Council of Ministers
".
Since 2000, the law relating to urban solidarity and renewal (SRU) requires municipalities with more than 3,500 inhabitants (1,500 in Île-de-France) to have 20% of social housing by 2025, a rate raised at 25% in 2014, except for municipalities which justify a specific local situation.
According to Emmanuelle Wargon, in the future, "
it will be possible to modulate slightly, upwards or downwards, the pace of construction
", but in the event of non-compliance with the commitments "
the sanctions will be more automatic and more dissuasive
" with “
floor sanctions
” which will be “
increased in the event of a repeat offense
”.
As for the lack of social mix, denounced recently in a report from the Court of Auditors, Emmanuelle Wargon indicates that "
tomorrow [...] the prefects will be able to take back control of the attributions if the quotas are not respected
".
"
Political politics
"
Asked about the desire of the ecologist Yannick Jadot to raise the objective to 30% of social housing, she considered that it was a "
political policy
", pointing to a problem of "
consistency within EELV: during that Yannick Jadot is proposing that, the majority of green mayors elected last year, in Bordeaux for example, are in the process of refusing all building permits, including social housing
”.
As for the construction of social housing, she indicated that an agreement would be signed next week to build 250,000 housing units in two years, after a year 2020 with a number of social housing projects "
much lower than the needs, with less than 90,000 approved housing
”, due to the Covid-19 crisis.
Regarding also the decline in personal housing assistance (APL), Emmanuelle Wargon recognizes that "
the reform may have resulted in a decrease for the 130,000 young people on professionalization contracts
".
This situation will, according to her, be corrected with "
a reduction on their income, equivalent to the minimum wage
" which "will
allow them to be treated as apprentices
".