The city of Bobigny undertook this Thursday to cancel all of the rents for the month of April for the 4,000 tenants of its public housing office (OPH), evoking a first in France to "privilege the power of purchase of families ”.
“A substantial part of the Balynian population is made up of recipients of social minima, unemployed people or precarious people drawing their income from" odd jobs ". The Covid-19 and the confinement have therefore had a significant impact on the economic balance of many families, "said the town hall in a press release.
A cost of 1.6 million
The city of Bobigny will assume 50% of this exemption, for a total cost of 1.6 million euros. The remaining load will have to be assumed by the Bobigny OPH using "all the levers that the government has put at its disposal to make savings such as load deferral or work that cannot be carried out during the confinement period" , specifies to AFP Mickael Alves, collaborator of the outgoing mayor UDI Stéphane De Paoli. "A municipal council will be convened in June to formalize the decision," he said.
A cancellation of rents is "a somewhat excessive measure, in the sense that most tenants do not have a drop in income," reacted the director of studies of the Abbé Foundation Pierre Manuel Domergue who is in favor of a targeted system. to help people in difficulty. "You should know that three months of rent in the private and social park, this represents a bill of 18 billion euros," says Manuel Domergue. "Social landlords will suffer this economic crisis when they have already suffered a lot of cuts for 3 years".
For its part, Seine-Saint-Denis habitat, which is the largest social landlord in the department with 85,000 tenants, has set up "a social unit which studies situations on a case-by-case basis". Over 800 households have benefited from rent spreading.
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