Benjamin Griveaux in a meeting in Paris on January 27, 2020. - ROMUALD MEIGNEUX / SIPA

This will likely become his flagship proposition in a city where property prices are soaring and breaking records. The LREM candidate, Benjamin Griveaux, wants the Paris city hall to pay up to 100,000 euros in contributions to households, so that they can buy their main residence in the capital. To manage the allocation of these funds, the city will have to create an organization. To finance the operation, Benjamin Griveaux aims to put “700 million euros on the table, and raise 1.3 billion euros on the markets” on the mandate.

Part of the added value for the city

"At the time of resale, the city will take a share of the capital gain which will be capped around 20% of the price of the property," said the former government spokesperson in an interview published on Saturday on the Parisien website. . "You have to help (the middle classes) to become owners," he believes, noting that "in Paris, when you don't have any capital, you can't buy. It is the worst inequality ”.

For the candidate, ranked third in the voting intentions behind the outgoing PS mayor, Anne Hidalgo, and the LR Rachida Dati, the 100,000 euros of contribution represent "the equivalent of a room for a growing family". Are targeted in particular by the measure the middle classes, for example couples with a child who earn two about 6,000 euros per month, or "too much to access social housing and not enough to buy," said the entourage of the candidate. Its objective is the acquisition of 20,000 homes.

Identify vacant accommodation

Other measures in favor of housing: the "inventory of vacant housing" in Paris and then "offer to the most reluctant owners" to rent them to the City of Paris, which will sublet them to the middle classes. According to several studies, housing is one of the main concerns of residents of Paris, where the square meter in September exceeded 10,000 euros, a price increasingly disconnected from the standard of living of Parisians.

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