Social housing: more and more requests, fewer and fewer allocations

Albane Leprince 6:00 a.m., January 30, 2024

The housing crisis is confirmed! In its annual report published on Tuesday January 23, the National Social Housing Control Agency (Ancols) reveals its figures. First lesson, following the coronavirus crisis, the number of social housing allocations decreased by 4% while the volume of requests increased by 3%. Thus, nearly 420,000 housing units were allocated in 2022, i.e. an allocation rate of 11.4%. In 2022, the number of “requests active at least one day in the year” has exceeded 3.6 million!

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On average 520 days of waiting to see your request accepted

Obviously, it is in the Ile-de-France region as well as in the Mediterranean and Atlantic arc that the attributions are the lowest. But the National Social Housing Control Agency still notes a positive point for 2022, allocations have increased in tense areas such as Paris and its immediate suburbs with 31,000 housing units, a number which had not been reached since 2017 Also, that for so-called “Dalo” (enforceable right to housing) households which have priority has exceeded 24,000, a record!

However, waiting times to see your application for social housing accepted are constantly increasing, 520 days on average (i.e. 16 days more compared to 2021), up to 721 days (+14 days) for other households whose request was still active as of December 31, 2022. On the other hand, for single-parent families, it is less than 500 days. Latest lesson, the unemployed represent the category of households most strongly affected by the reduction in allocations, -20% unlike State agents, +28%!