France still needs to do better on HLMs.

Authorizations for new social housing will indeed be less than 100,000 in metropolitan France in 2022 for the third consecutive year, announced Wednesday the president of the Social Union for Housing (USH), Emmanuelle Cosse.

"The social housing approvals (authorizations) will still be low in 2022, perhaps they will be a little less bad than last year, but in any case there will be less than 100,000 approved housing units", declared Emmanuelle Pod.

“This observation in France is also valid in the overseas territories, where production is showing a worrying slowdown”.

The USH wants the end of the solidarity rent reduction

In 2021, there were just under 95,000 housing approvals in mainland France financed by the national stone aid fund, far from the objectives set by the government and donors.

The former minister therefore called on the executive to reconsider the reduction in solidarity rents (RLS), "lazy tax" according to her, which since 2018 has forced social landlords to reduce their rents to compensate for the reduction in housing aid. (APL) paid to tenants.

A recurring claim from the USH, which constantly criticizes the budgetary savings to the detriment of social housing made under Emmanuel Macron's first five-year term.

"The situation is not good in terms of housing and it is not good in terms of social housing", added Emmanuelle Cosse, the debt of HLM organizations having increased by 3.5 billion euros in 2022 due to the increase in the rate of the livret A, which is used to finance them.

The USH will dedicate the year 2023 to "the voluntary commitment of the HLM movement in favor of renewable energies and the protection of biodiversity", Emmanuelle Cosse also promised, calling for more subsidies to carry out the energy renovation of social housing.

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