Question 1491 — housing

Summary

Mr. Patrice Martin draws the attention of the Minister of Housing and Urban Renewal to the social housing crisis and in particular access to this type of housing for French households. Overall, a critical level has been reached with 2.6 million people on the waiting list for this type of housing according to the recent information mission on French people's access to decent housing. Some key figures bear witness to this situation: France holds a quarter of the social housing in the entire European Union and devotes 1.5% of its gross domestic product to it (38.2 billion euros, twice as much as in the rest of the member countries), two million requests for housing are registered on average each year for only 450,000 allocations, the annual turnover rate of occupants is less than 7% while the vacancy rate is less than 1% and the age average occupant exceeds 50 years. Although social housing occupies a considerable place in France, supply never catches up with demand, leading to a total blockage of the system. The weakness of current and recent immigration control policies obviously bears a heavy responsibility for the inertia of this system, coupled with more than questionable allocation mechanisms contributing to the exclusion of many French households, in economic and social situations reflecting great precariousness. We observe an over-representation of households from immigrant backgrounds living in social housing with 35% of immigrants compared to 11% of non-immigrant French people (for at least two generations). In addition, the opacity and inequity in the allocation methods, with modalities in the hands of 720 organizations obeying a set of criteria of decision that is questionable to say the least, with certain arbitrations and legal mechanisms, leading to an unfair situation for French households (consequence of the “DALO” law of 2007). Then, a logic of concentration of community retention of social housing is observed, since social housing has gradually lost its vocation as a stage in the residential journey of the most modest households, as a stepping stone towards accession to property. The right to remain in the premises, resulting from the law of September 1, 1948, accentuates a phenomenon of territorial appropriation and ethnic-religious communitarianization in these neighborhoods. After all these observations, he intends to know the measures that the Government plans to take to, on the one hand, guarantee better access for French households to social housing, in the face of increased migratory pressure. and unfair allocation mechanisms and, on the other hand, reestablish the original vocation of social housing as a transitional stage in the residential journey of households.

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