No, France does not really lack housing

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This is the prevailing discourse to explain the surge in real estate prices.

For lack of sufficient supply to meet the demand which remains strong, despite the Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine, housing is becoming more and more expensive.

This was the case in the metropolises - it is less so today - it is now the case in medium-sized towns.

Neglected for a long time, these towns have been attracting, for 2 years, more and more inhabitants of the metropolises wishing to buy bigger for less.

And suddenly, real estate prices are rising and becoming too high for the locals, who are often forced to move away.

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To remedy this, a watchword constantly comes up in the mouths of real estate professionals: build more housing.

Even Emmanuel Macron, barely elected President of the Republic in 2017, had promised a "

".

We had to wait until the end of his first term to see him appear.

And even.

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