The government will set up a tariff shield for collective heating with electricity, thus correcting a flaw in the device, while "
working
" on a shield for the common areas, announced Thursday the Minister Delegate for the City and Housing , Oliver Klein.
“
We will (…) put in place a price shield for collective heating with electricity and we are also working to put in place a price shield for common areas
”, announced Olivier Klein at the end of the 82nd HLM Congress, at Lyons.
The approximately 5.2 million families living in social housing benefit, like other individuals, from the electricity tariff shield, which limits the rise in energy bills despite soaring prices.
Those that are heated with gas are also covered by a tariff shield.
But around 100,000 social housing units, which have collective electric heating, are not covered, ie around 2% of the social housing stock.
This is an exception, their HLM complexes having been classified as companies, explained in mid-September the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
Olivier Klein also announced a five-year plan for "
Housing First
", a program launched in 2017, which has enabled 390,000 homeless people, on the street or in accommodation centers to access housing.
"
We will have the means, with an additional 44 million euros in the finance bill for 2023
," said the minister.
A decline in the number of new homes
In her closing speech, Emmanuelle Cosse, president of the Union sociale pour l'habitat (USH), which represents social landlords, recalled that the HLM sector had too often "
been referred to a simple sector of activity in which the state could save
money.
She noted a drop in the number of new homes, a "
brutal slowdown in social access to property
" and a "
faster than expected drying up
" of landlords' own funds, calling for
" contribution mechanisms
.
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Faced with the increase in tenants' charges despite the tariff shield, the former Minister of Housing also called on the government to revalue the "
fixed charges
" part of personalized housing aid (APL).
She also called for a "
control of building land prices
", believing that the government's Zero Net Artificialisation (ZAN) strategy would make "
building land rarer
" and come "
+ by side effect + enrich in a way undue owners of building land
”.
