Welcome help for households in difficulty. Employees and the unemployed who struggle to pay their rent or repay their mortgage in the face of the coronavirus crisis will be able to benefit from aid of 150 euros paid by Action Logement, we learned this Thursday.
It will be “a fixed amount of aid of 150 euros, monthly for a maximum duration of 2 months”, details a joint press release between Action Logement and the Ministry of Housing, specifying that there cannot be any only one per household. Action Logement is a gigantic entity managed jointly by employers and unions. It frequently comes in support of the government's housing policy, with the announcement last year of a nine billion euro plan.
Strict access conditions
In connection with the Minister of Housing, Julien Denormandie, the entity this time mobilized 100 million euros for this new aid which will concern HLM occupants, tenants in the private sector and owners in the process of repaying their loans.
To benefit from it, you must be a private employee or unemployed, and fulfill several conditions, firstly not normally earning more than a smic and a half. Then, it is necessary to justify, as regards the employees, to have lost at least 15% of its income because of the containment measures put in place from mid-March against the coronavirus.
This aid, which is not strictly speaking public since it is not paid by the State, is the first to directly affect housing since the start of the crisis. The government has, however, already set up systems with a broader aim, the most emblematic of which is the assumption by the State of partial unemployment for several months. "This new aid complements all of these measures," said Julien Denormandie in the press release, also referring to emergency aid launched in May for the most vulnerable households.
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