“There is no magic measure. Élisabeth Borne presented the executive’s plan on Monday to respond to the housing crisis. But his announcements generally disappointed the players in the sector, who did not hesitate to quickly express their anger. Extension but strong restriction of the zero-rate loan (PTZ), end of the Pinel rental investment scheme, rental aid and support for construction via the purchase of housing from developers by Action Logement and the Caisse des dépôts… The head of the government shelled the arbitrations of the executive before the working groups of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) meeting at the Maison de l’architecture in Paris. But, she warned, “there is no magic, one and only way to unblock the situation.”
These measures, from the “housing” section of the CNR, were supposed to mark “a new method of consultation” wanted by Emmanuel Macron to recreate a link “between fellow citizens and political decision-making”. In total, some 200 people worked for six months on the subject. “This housing CNR is above all not an end”, declared a little earlier the Minister Delegate for Housing, Olivier Klein, in front of a cautious audience.
“There’s nothing game-changing about this plan, which is minimalistic, imprecise. There is not this kick that allows us to go up to the top of the pool”, underlined Véronique Bédague, CEO of Nexity, first real estate developer and co-host of the CNR.
“I believe that we were unanimous on our findings and I fear that we are also unanimous in our disappointment with the conclusions,” added Emmanuelle Cosse, president of the Social Union for Habitat, which represents donors. social.
Olivier Klein had conceded in the morning that there was “a risk of a social bomb” linked to the violent crisis in the sector, while new construction is in free fall, rentals are seized up and poor housing affects nearly 4 .1 million people.
In addition, the number of households applying for social housing (2.42 million) has never been so high and the number of homeless people has climbed (to 330,000).
The government plan had five objectives: to promote home ownership and rental, support the production and renovation of social housing, relaunch construction and increase the energy renovation of the private stock. However, the provisions unveiled do not include any shock measure such as the control of land prices, one of the strong proposals from the CNR.
“As it stands, this plan is not likely to respond to the immense concerns, the challenges that are before us,” reacted the director general of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, Christophe Robert, also co-host of the CNR.
For Pascal Boulanger, president of the Federation of real estate developers (FPI), “there is no incentive for mayor builders, there is no status of the private lessor, we are planning the shutdown of Pinel then that we need it. “The announcements of the CNR Logement in reality hide the continuation of the disengagement of the State which began in 2017”, accused the LFI deputies for their part.
