Housing is the main item of expenditure for the French who devote about 20% of their income to it, according to INSEE.
However, the subject does not seem to fascinate the political class.
The measures to improve the real estate purchasing power of the French, to build more housing or to think about the habitat of tomorrow are not legion.
“
Housing is perceived as technical and long-term
,” confides to
Le Figaro
Emmanuelle Wargon, Minister of Housing.
Nobody can promise that we will change things overnight.
We have to get out of the controversy and demonstrate that there are solutions that produce effects in one or two years.
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The banks indicate that they sometimes refuse files, but it is punctual",
underlines the minister.
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