The number of building permits issued in France in 2021 amounts to 471,000, according to figures released this Friday by the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
After a year 2020 marked by two confinements which almost stopped activity, authorizations show an increase of 18.9% over one year.
This is more than in 2019.
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At the same time, the ministry estimates the number of housing units started in 2021 at 386,700, i.e. 37,500 more (+ 10.7%) than in 2020. “If we take as a point of comparison the twelve months preceding the health crisis (from March 2019 to February 2020), the number of dwellings authorized over the last twelve months remains slightly higher (+3.0%), but the estimate of the number of dwellings started is slightly lower (-0 .4%)”, delays the ministry in its press release.
In detail, these figures are driven by building permits for houses (individual dwellings) up sharply in 2021: + 26.3%, followed by grouped dwellings (individual dwellings in common collective spaces, + 24.3 %), ordinary collective housing, including social housing (+14.6%) and residential housing (students, seniors, +9.8%).
“We are heading straight for a collective housing crisis”
After being confined for months, more French people want to live in a house with a garden.
"A French dream", in the words of the Minister in charge of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, difficult to reconcile with the necessary efforts in terms of ecology.
“The pavilion model with a garden is not sustainable and leads us to a dead end,” she declared in the fall, creating controversy.
he sighs.
We are heading straight for a collective housing crisis”.