1114 euros of rent per month for a 95 m2 apartment in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.
The deputy of Charente Jérôme Lambert, a long-time member of the Socialist Party, has occupied since 1997 an intermediate-rent housing in the Paris Habitat social housing stock, according to the
Mediapart
site .
A category of housing granted to families whose income is too high to be able to access an HLM, but too low to be able to find accommodation in the private sector.
The dean of the National Assembly thus pays a rent twice lower than current market prices according to estimates given by Mediapart.
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“This accommodation had been allocated to his partner in 1997 and when he declared himself to be co-occupant, he did not report his income. (…) We scrupulously check the allocations, even more so after election periods, but this deputy has escaped our vigilance”
, explains the social landlord Paris Habitat to Mediapart.
"Remuneration not sufficient to stay beyond this rent"
Joined by the investigative media, Jérôme Lambert judges that there is
"nothing morally shocking" in his situation.
He confirms that he has lived in this apartment for more than twenty years but that he intends to leave it in June.
“My rent has changed little for 30 years and when it goes back to the normal park of the city, the monthly rent will exceed 2000 euros (…) Me, I would be asked for that amount, any deputy that I am, I might have trouble paying it.
You know, the price of rents in Paris is still something.
The remuneration of the deputies is important but not sufficient to lodge beyond this rent, except to reside in the Assembly or in the hotel ”,
defends the nephew of François Mitterrand.
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Not invested by the Socialist Party and dismissed by the Nupes (union of LFI / PS / EELV / PCF parties), Jérôme Lambert is a dissident candidate for his re-election in the legislative elections in Charente.
