“We must put an end to the single-family home!”
On October 14, 2021, the Minister of Housing at the time, Emmanuelle Wargon, caused a wave of indignation by declaring that
“the pavilion with a garden is ecological, economic and social nonsense”
.
Is the pavilion then, as she asserted, “
a model behind us
”?
According to sociologists, Hervé Marchal and Jean-Marc Stébé, who publish
Le Pavillon.
A French passion
(PUF), the health crisis has intensified an already significant trend.
Indeed, while the share of single-family home owners has steadily increased between 1990 and 2019, rising from 78.2% to 82.2%, the number of building permits granted between June 2021 and May 2022 has an increase of 16.4% compared to the previous twelve months.
Driven by the ban on building large housing estates (circular of March 21, 1973) and by the campaign of real estate developers in favor of single-family homes, home ownership initially became…
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