The single-family house, a "dead end" and "ecological nonsense"?
After her controversial remarks last Thursday, Housing Minister Emmanuelle Wargon returned to her statements this Monday on RTL and BFMTV.
Thursday in a speech, the minister had declared that the individual houses, "this dream built for the French in the 70s", "this model of urbanization which depends on the car to connect them", are "ecological nonsense , Economic and Social ".
"The model of the pavilion with garden is not sustainable and leads us to a dead end", according to comments reported by several media.
At the microphone of RTL on Monday, the minister wanted to support the model of the single-family house, while setting aside "the subdivision very far from everything, poorly connected to the city center, without any service", "a model behind us ", according to her.
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“We have to imagine the accessible model of tomorrow, which can always be based on a district with houses but in which we also manage to provide services.
(…) We have alternative models, we just have to rethink it all together.
(…) The single-family home always has a future, it makes sense, ”she continued.
"The single-family house is the dream of the French, and I understand it," she also told BFMTV, campaigning in particular for the renovation of town-center houses in the countryside. “If we patch them up, we can have a good quality of life in a village center, without being in the process of exploiting agricultural or natural land. "
The minister's speech against the single-family home had sparked a flurry of criticism.
The Habitat pole of the French Building Federation (FFB) had thus "deplored the persistent stigmatization of individual housing, against the aspirations of the French" on Twitter, while the Federation of individual home builders had said "revolted against such remarks made by a so-called ecological Parisian elite and yet very far from the territories, the inhabitants and their concerns ”, in the specialized press.