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Health crisis: the turnover rate in public housing has never been so low in Paris

2021-03-21T18:34:36.699Z


Faced with the uncertainty caused by the health crisis linked to Covid-19, tenants of social housing are no longer moving. Consequence: p


This is one of the many perverse effects of the health crisis linked to Covid-19.

In Paris, the turnover rate of social housing has never been so low.

People have not moved, have not given notice of their HLM, have not moved… This has also had the consequence of not making a call for air for the 234,000 applicants for HLM in pain.

This unprecedented observation is shared by the hundred or so social landlords in Paris, from the smallest to the largest in terms of heritage, such as the city's landlords: Paris Habitat with its 125,000 housing units and the RIVP with its 55,000 family apartments.

Together, they house one in four Parisians, between their 230,000 social settlements.

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“From memory of director, I have never seen such a low turnover rate, worries Serge Contat, the boss of the RIVP (Real estate agency of Paris).

In 2019, we had a rate of 4.8% and there, in 2020, it fell to 3.9%.

Usually we re-lease 2,500 apartments every year.

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But at the RIVP, we put these figures into perspective… “Anyway, we usually have in Paris the lowest turnover rate in France.

In the provinces, in the social housing, it is 8 to 10%.

As for the private sector, it is 20 to 25%.

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"We said to ourselves that we were going to wait ..."

Obviously, the pandemic has changed everything with the end of apartment visits, confinement, the inability to move, economic difficulties, the precariousness of some families, worry and fear of tomorrow.

"I found myself on short-time work at the start of confinement," testifies Benjamin, 35, tenant of Paris Habitat in the 11th district.

With my partner, we had planned to leave our two-room apartment

(Editor's note: 410 euros in rent)

to look for a three-room apartment in the private sector, in particular so that our son had his room.

Except that my partner is intermittent in the show, that everything has stopped for her.

So we said to ourselves that we were going to wait… ”

At Paris Habitat, the turnover rate fell even more than at the RIVP: 3.4% against 4.5% the previous year.

“We had 1,000 fewer apartment assignments compared to 2016,” analyzes Stéphane Dauphin, the director.

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At the official HLM exchange "Echanger habiter", which allows Parisians to make calls for air, "the pandemic has frozen everything and the months of confinement have put a complete stop to the moves", confirms de for his part, the spokesperson for the AORIF, which brings together the Ile-de-France social housing organizations.

"It is not surprising, decrypts Ian Brossat, the deputy (PCF) for housing of the mayor (PS) of the capital, that Parisians have clung to their housing, even more in a difficult period where to have housing social protection is the assurance of having a roof over your head.

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Assistance for tenants in difficulty

The elected representative also points out that "the lowest turnover rate is found in the pool of the cheapest dwellings which house the most modest population".

This historic rate has also been traced back to the mayor's office with “signs of weakness from tenants”.

“Donors have had an increase in unpaid debts,” confirms the elected official.

They have put in place measures to protect the poorest tenants.

“The evictions, even last summer, outside the winter break, were stopped.

Social worker positions have been created to support those most in difficulty, ”explains Ian Brossat.

Stéphane Dauphin recalls that half of unemployment in France is concentrated in Ile-de-France.

And that of this precariousness, especially during the pandemic, "our tenants are on the front line".

The fact remains that this historically low turnover rate in low-rent housing in Paris - "which is a thermometer of the crisis", indicates Ian Brossat - has pushed the City to put on the table 5 million euros from FSL (housing solidarity fund) for 2021. History of cleaning up the situation and, above all, "not to let tenants sink into debt", failing to move and move towards better days ...

Source: leparis

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