Question 10660 — associations and foundations

Summary

Mrs. Clémentine Autain alerts the Minister of Territorial Cohesion to the dangerous destabilization of the associative fabric in popular territories following the elimination of 144,000 supported jobs by the end of 2018. The measure taken in the summer of 2017 showed its effects from the following school year. In certain towns, the loss of these contracts prevented nursery or primary schools from opening in good conditions. On the cultural plan, projects, workshops have been simply canceled, festivals and excursions are canceled. The decline of the sports club network is particularly alarming: it is estimated that 20% of sports clubs will have disappeared in the next six months. Apart from the accounting balance sheets, the disastrous impact of this government decision will affect social bonds, local solidarity networks, which are outside the economic field but well in touch with the reality of the inhabitants. The sectors concerned by this real social plan for the associative sector are particularly numerous: sport, culture, support for the elderly, educational support, awareness of the energy transition. More generally, all the meeting points between residents who form the social bond of our cities are impacted by what represents a direct cut of one billion euros in the resources of associations. At a time when, following the abolition of the wealth tax, associations have noted a 50% reduction in donations of this nature, at a time when local authorities' allocations were cut by 300 million euros in the summer of 2017, when cities are ordered to limit the increase in their operating expenses to 1.2%, that remains to keep the associations alive? Not to mention the general reduction in funding for associations which, since 2005, have seen the public subsidies allocated to them decrease by 16 billion euros. When a subsidized contract ends, we estimate at 10 the number of volunteers who, due to lack of coordination, gradually distance themselves from associative initiatives. In total, the number of assisted contracts will be more than divided by the end of 2018, going from 459,999 to 200,000 contracts. And the reduction of these contracts should continue at the same rate in 2019. This purely budgetary decision is not in touch with the reality of the territories, because where the associations fulfill public service missions, they are only responding to the progressive disengagement of the State dictated by budgetary austerity policies. successive. Beyond the hard blow for associations, these jobs are intended to support professional stability for people far from employment. These job cuts will be all the more violent in popular areas like Seine-Saint-Denis, as the unemployment rate there is much higher than in the rest of the territory. This measure therefore goes in the direction of a worsening of territorial inequalities. She asks it what measures will be taken to ensure the maintenance of the associative fabric and its missions throughout the territory and ensure the sustainability of its financial resources.

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