Real estate: Gabriel Attal unveils his 5 emergency measures for housing

Albane Leprince 2:05 p.m., February 14, 2024

“We are going to look for all possible accommodation with our teeth.” This is the statement from Gabriel Attal, the Prime Minister, this Wednesday, traveling to a construction site in Villejuif in Val-de-Marne. Objective, respond to the housing crisis. The head of government, accompanied by Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological Transition and Guillaume Kasbarian, new Minister for Housing, therefore outlined a series of five measures between now and 2027. 

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First of all, the government has selected 22 “territories committed to housing” which will commit to building 1,500 housing units each, or more than 30,000 in total, within three years. The cities of Villejuif, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Marseille and Saint-Malo were notably cited. Also, to save square meters, while avoiding eating into green spaces, Gabriel Attal wants to facilitate the construction of housing, by raising certain existing buildings in "all major cities in France".

Third measure, the simplification of procedures when an individual wishes to build an annex in their garden for example because the Prime Minister says he is aware that the individual house is "part of the French dream". The fourth announcement concerns the transformation of offices into homes. Here too, Gabriel Attal wants to simplify procedures for mayors, but also to create “reversible building permits”. Finally, fifth and final measure unveiled by the head of government: doubling the number of so-called “intermediate” rental housing to allow the middle classes to have access to it by the end of the five-year term.