Question 17142 — housing

Summary

Mr. Maxime Michelet draws the attention of the Minister of Cities and Housing to the increase in prolonged breakdowns of elevators in collective housing buildings, particularly within social housing. In many areas, notably in the Reims metropolitan area as well as in several municipalities in the Marne, tenants regularly find themselves without an elevator for several weeks, or even several months. For elderly people, people with disabilities, people suffering from serious illnesses or families with young children, these breakdowns do not constitute a simple inconvenience but a real deprivation of their freedom to come and go. Some residents give up leaving their homes, see their home care compromised or become entirely dependent on their loved ones or the solidarity of their neighbors to perform the most basic actions of daily life. Field feedback highlights particularly long repair times, linked in particular to the unavailability of certain spare parts, the aging of the elevator fleet or even slow validation and ordering procedures. They also emphasize that maintenance contracts do not always make it possible to ensure restoration service within deadlines compatible with the needs of the most vulnerable residents. While the elevator constitutes an essential piece of equipment for the effective accessibility of many homes, its prolonged immobilization can transform the latter into real “vertical prisons”. Such a situation undermines the dignity of the occupants, calls into question their autonomy and questions the very notion of decent housing when it is no longer effectively accessible to its occupant. Over the past few months, parliamentary initiatives have been able to bring this initiative to the hemicycle of the National Assembly without proposing a sufficiently robust and convincing solution. He therefore asks whether the Government intends to change the legislative or regulatory framework in order to impose maximum deadlines for returning elevators to service within residential buildings, to strengthen the obligations of landlords in terms of monitoring maintenance contracts and to provide for compulsory measures of support, rehousing or compensation when the prolonged immobilization of an elevator permanently deprives the occupants of the normal use of their accommodation. At a minimum, he asks him if he plans to carry out an objective inventory of this question which poisons the daily life of so many French people, especially among the most precarious, in order to allow the debate to move forward positively.

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