The Alerte collective, which brings together 33 associations fighting against poverty, presented ten proposals to presidential candidates on Thursday for a "social five-year term".
The opportunity for
20 Minutes
to sift through the key measures of the candidates in this area.
Housing, social assistance, employment… Everyone has their own proposal.
For now, the presidential campaign has focused more on security than on social issues, but that could change.
Especially since according to INSEE, 14.6% of French people lived below the poverty line in 2020, with an income of less than 1,063 euros per month.
In order for the cursor to be placed more on this theme, the Alerte collective, bringing together 33 associations fighting against poverty, presented its proposals to the presidential candidates on Thursday.
The opportunity for
20 Minutes
to sift through the measures to fight against poverty that emerge during this campaign.
Opening the RSA to young people
“We must open a guaranteed minimum for everyone from the age of 18”, pleads Véronique Devise, president of Secours Catholique and member of the Alerte collective.
Because currently, the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) is only accessible to people over 25 years old.
“However, the health crisis has highlighted the fragility of young people.
Particularly those who come out of child welfare, young people without diplomas and precarious students, ”abounds Henri Simorre, ATD Fourth World representative.
Ideas that join those of some candidates.
The communist Fabien Roussel thus spoke out for the opening of the RSA to those under 25, as did the PS candidate Anne Hidalgo or Jean Lassalle.
The ecologist Yannick Jadot, wishes him a “citizen income” paid automatically from the age of 18 and “guaranteeing that no one lives on less than 918 euros per month thanks to a basic income raised to 740 euros combined with housing allowances and activity bonus.
A proposal that refers to the "universal income" that the socialist candidate Benoît Hamon had defended five years ago, and which had been deemed unrealistic by his detractors.
As for the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse, she pleads for a “young active income” of 670 euros per month for young people who will be trained in jobs in tension.
Boost social housing
In its latest report on poor housing, the Abbé-Pierre Foundation counted 300,000 homeless people, 4.1 million poorly housed and more than 22,000 people living in makeshift housing (squats, slums, etc.). the director of studies of the Foundation and member of Alerte Manuel Domergue launched a new cry of alarm: “It is urgent to relaunch the production of social housing to arrive at 150,000 new ecological social housing each year.
And to better enforce the SRU law”.
Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo are in line with the same quantified objective, and the latter wants a third of these new homes to be very social.
The rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon offers 200,000 per year and wants to act against rent increases for relocation to social housing.
Like Yannick Jadot, he plans to raise the quota of social housing in cities to 30% (against 20% or 25% provided for today in the SRU law).
For her part, Marine Le Pen is aiming lower, with a proposal to build 100,000 social housing units per year, “including 20,000 for students and young workers”.
Even if Emmanuel Macron has not yet unveiled his entire program, his current Minister of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon,
said that “sanctions will be more automatic and more of a deterrent” for mayors failing to comply with the SRU law.
Valérie Pécresse wants to establish a priority for social housing for front-line workers in the municipality where they live.
Increase social minima and simplify them
Admittedly, during the five-year term, the maximum amount of Disabled Adult Allowance (AAH) was increased by more than 100 euros per month.
But it is modulated downwards if the disabled person is in a relationship with someone who receives sufficient income.
The minimum old age has been increased by 100 euros per month for a modest pensioner.
Insufficient for the collective, which also wants a revaluation of the AAH and minimum old age.
“We are also asking for a 30% increase in the RSA from the start of the five-year term, to reach 900 euros per month”, adds Véronique Devise.
If elected, Anne Hidalgo also makes promises in this area: "I will complete the individualization of the AAH".
An idea that Valérie Pécresse, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Nathalie Arthaud and Jean Lassalle also defend.
The candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, pleads for her to revalue the minimum old age in order to bring it to 1,000 euros (against 906.81 per month today).
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wants it to reach 1,060 and Nathalie Arthaud, the Lutte Ouvrière candidate, is even aiming for 2,000 euros
.
Regarding these aids, the Alerte collective has another claim: “We call on the next government to think about a merger and simplification of social minima, via the establishment of the Universal Activity Income (RUA)”, indicates Véronique Devise.
It aimed to merge "the greatest number of benefits" to simplify the lives of recipients and fight against non-recourse.
Considered by Emmanuel Macron, it was not implemented during this five-year term.
But the president mentioned his intention, if he is re-elected, to return to the charge.
Fight against job insecurity
Uberization of work, part-time work suffered, abusive use of fixed-term contracts… Poor working conditions are often vectors of poverty.
Hence the desire of several candidates to tackle it.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to establish a maximum quota of precarious contracts in companies: 10% for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and 5% for large companies.
Anne Hidalgo, for her part, wishes to fight against the precariousness of "uberized" workers: "I will put an end to the situation for workers on digital platforms, such as delivery people, to be self-employed when they have no control over their working conditions and remuneration.
The law will establish in their favor a presumption of employment so that they have access to all the rights of employees (SMIC,
social protection…)”, she declares in her program.
Yannick Jadot wants to reinforce the CDI as a standard.
Philippe Poutou, the NPA candidate, wants "in
end with uberization:
for each job, a real contract, a real salary”, he declares in his program.
Support single parent families
According to INSEE, in 2019, 33% of single-parent families, the vast majority of them women, lived below the poverty line.
Which explains why some of the candidates think of them.
In her program, Marine Le Pen declares that she wants to “double support for single mothers raising children while strengthening controls to avoid fraud”.
As for Emmanuel Zemmour, the candidate of Reconquête!, he wants to give priority access to social housing to French single mothers and French people with jobs.
And there is still a month left for the other candidates to put forward their ideas…
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