Housing First: Unfortunately, it's unclear

The plan reaffirms the necessary development of long-term housing offers which effectively make it possible to get out of the logic of emergency and successive accommodation. But these objectives seem to us despite everything too timorous.

First, in terms of family pensions, for which ALI members are particularly mobilized. The obstacles to their development remain numerous (land, conviction of elected officials, etc.) and they alone cannot meet all needs.

Then, in terms of rental intermediation in the private sector. If this place of the private park as an important lever is recalled, for all that, the quantified objectives do not seem to us to meet the challenges. The demand for housing is increasing and social housing is unable to absorb this demand. While many landlords wish to contribute to the solidarity effort, we remind you of the urgent need to review the tax incentive methods of the Loc'avantages system, which today is particularly unsuited to the reality of the rental market in certain territories.

The ALI also welcome the inclusion of social residences in this plan and the setting of a quantified production target (25.000). They point out, however, that this figure must be understood excluding boarding houses but also excluding the transformation of migrant workers' homes, which do not create new housing. In addition, a breakdown according to the devices, the target audiences and the social projects will be necessary.

Finally, they point to the need for objectives and resources in terms of thermal renovation of their existing stock, in order to prevent a number of dwellings from being prohibited for renting in 2025 under the new DPE criteria.

Posting goals is good. But the plan remains difficult to read on the concrete means of developing social residences, both in terms of production and operation, even if the financial means seem to be greater than those initially announced. The ALIs particularly regret the vagueness that persists, here again, on the means dedicated to Social rental management assistance, which gives social residences all their social utility, and, more generally, on the necessary consolidation of the economic model of the actors . While managers of social residences have been waiting for the publication of the decree establishing exceptional short-term aid for several months, these are structural responses that should be provided as of the next finance laws.

Furthermore, the ALIs question the apparent lack of coordination between public policies, which was nevertheless the objective of the CNR. For example, on housing for young people, there was an unprecedented opportunity to articulate the State-Action Housing agreement, the COG of the CNAF, the Housing First plan, but also other public policies (development of apprenticeship, full employment , seasonal workers, etc.) in order to program a coherent offer that promotes support that is as close as possible to needs and social mixing as designed within the Foyers Jeunes Travailleurs.

After a Housing CNR that disappointed all the players, the announcements made this morning as part of part 2 of the Housing First plan must be translated concretely from the next finance laws. An implementation schedule and a monitoring methodology based on genuine partnership governance must be put in place before the summer.