A low-rent house in France (illustrative image).

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In France, only 47% of municipalities meet their social housing construction obligations, denounced the Abbé Pierre Foundation on Tuesday in its study on the period 2017-2019.

Since 2000, the law relating to urban solidarity and renewal (SRU) requires municipalities with more than 3,500 inhabitants (1,500 in Ile-de-France) to have 20% of social housing by 2025, a rate raised at 25% in 2014, except for certain municipalities which justify a particular local situation.

According to calculations by the Abbé Pierre Foundation, 53% of municipalities, i.e. 550 cities, did not meet their objectives over the 2017-2019 period.

Donkey hat for the Paca region

Compared to the previous period, the rate is down (56% for 2014-2016).

"Even if there are too many municipalities that do not meet their objective, it is rather reassuring because initially there was the fear that as we approach the" deadline "of 2025, there will be an explosion of these municipalities because the objectives became more important every time, ”responded to AFP Manuel Domergue, director of studies of the Foundation.

At the head of the bad pupils are mainly municipalities of Paca.

In this region, 83% of the municipalities targeted by the law did not reach their objective over the period, ahead of Corsica (67%) then Pays de la Loire (59%).

Bourgogne Franche-Comté is the region with the lowest percentage (29%) of municipalities that have not reached their target, while Ile-de-France stands at 41%.

The “imagination” of HLMs

In detail, the municipalities with the lowest rate of HLM in 2019 are small: Solliès-Toucas (0.79%), Le Castellet (1.03%) and Tourrettes-sur-Loup (1.74%) .

Among the cities of more than 50,000 inhabitants, "the three cities with the lowest rates of HLM are Neuilly-sur-Seine, Cagnes-sur-Mer and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés".

"In the first years of the SRU law, the State and the prefects were not tough enough and many municipalities hoped that the law would not be applied," explains Manuel Domergue.

"There are mayors but also their populations who refuse social housing for fear of having so-called undesirable populations and all that that carries in the imagination", he continues.

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