Question 16149 — defense

Summary

Mr. Frank Giletti draws the attention of the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans to the difficulties encountered by many military families when returning from overseas stays, particularly in terms of access to housing. Every year, soldiers assigned overseas are transferred to mainland France with their families. However, upon their return, some households find themselves faced with a particularly administrative situation. penalizing. For access to housing agreed with the Ministry of the Armed Forces, often managed by social landlords, the income taken into account is generally that of year N - 2. This income then includes the increases, bonuses or allowances linked to the stay overseas, even though they no longer correspond to the real situation of the household at the time of return to mainland France. This situation leads to paradoxical effects. Some families are considered to exceed the ceilings applicable to social or approved housing due to past income artificially increased by overseas assignment. At the same time, upon returning to mainland France, their real income decreases sharply, particularly when the spouse has not yet been able to resume their professional activity, due to delays in reintegration, transfer or job search. These families thus find themselves in an impasse, considered “too well off” to access certain approved housing, but not enough in the eyes of private landlords, particularly in tense areas. This difficulty is further reinforced by the geographical distance, the procedures often having to be carried out several thousand kilometers away, without the possibility of easily visiting the accommodation or compiling a rental file in conditions equivalent to those of families already present in mainland France. The consequences are very concrete: impossibility of securing family housing before the transfer, difficulties enrolling children in school, impossibility of organizing childcare, uncertainty about the spouse's return to work and significant destabilization of the family organization. However, these difficulties arise within the framework of changes imposed by the needs of the service. Added to these difficulties is a problem of temporality in the allocation of military housing. Families returning from overseas often have to wait for a late response from the administration regarding the possible allocation of approved housing. Due to a lack of sufficient visibility, many of them give up on these measures or take the initiative by looking for accommodation in the private park, in order to be able to organize the school registration of children, childcare arrangements and the entire family setup on time. It therefore appears necessary to better take into account the specific situation of military families returning from overseas. Several avenues could be studied, in particular the neutralization of allowances, bonuses and increases linked to overseas stay in the calculation of resources, the examination of files on the basis of actual and updated income at the time of return, the creation of automatic exemptions for returns from overseas, the reservation of a share of approved housing above the ceiling or even the development of an offer of intermediate housing adapted to the constraints specific to transferred military personnel. It could also be considered to extend by one to two months the notice period applicable to families leaving military or approved housing, in order to allow better anticipation of housing releases. Such a measure would facilitate the earlier allocation of housing to families affected in mainland France following a stay overseas and would prevent them from being forced to turn to private housing for lack of a sufficiently rapid administrative response. In this perspective, he asks her what measures the Government intends to implement to overcome this problem.

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