Attal wants to “search for all possible accommodation with his teeth”

“I have declared an emergency for housing in France”. “We are going to fight centimeter by centimeter, square meter by square meter to find housing for the French. We are going to find all possible housing with our teeth,” declared the Prime Minister during a site visit to Villejuif (Val de Marne).

“The objective is to guarantee concrete, tangible results in the next three years,” continued the head of government, who was accompanied by the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu and the new Minister for Housing, Guillaume Kasbarian.

The government has selected 22 “territories committed to Housing” which will commit to building, within three years, around 1.500 housing units each, or 30.000 in total.

“First 22 territories in which we will put public money to balance a certain number of operations, which otherwise would not have been able to come off the ground in the short term, and in which we will drastically simplify the procedures,” explained Mr. Attal, citing in particular Villejuif, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Marseille, Saint-Malo, Ferney-Voltaire, Biarritz.

To facilitate construction, the Prime Minister also mentioned “elevation, particularly in the city”. “We will continue to build, in particular by raising a certain number of buildings.” “In Ile-de-France, there will be an investment, including financial from the State, and I hope that from 2025 we will build vertically in all the major cities of France,” he said.

The head of government also spoke of the “individual house”, which is “part of the French dream”. However, "often, around the pavilions, there is still space that we sometimes don't know what to do with." “We will considerably simplify the procedures for those who wish, so that they can have additional housing built on their land,” he advocated.

Among the other measures outlined, the facilitation of the transformation of offices into housing via procedural simplifications for mayors, as well as "the creation of reversible building permits", which can go from an office building to a housing building.

Mr. Attal also wants the production of intermediate rental housing to be doubled, offered at regulated rates but higher than social housing, "in the years between now and the end of the five-year term". An objective already mentioned by Élisabeth Borne in November.

“And then there is obviously an issue on demand, in particular all the work carried out with the banks to facilitate access to credit,” added Mr. Attal.

FFB: Yes, we must continue, Mr. Prime Minister!

This February 14, during a site visit to Villejuif to support construction, the Prime Minister accompanied by Christophe Béchu and Guillaume Kasbarian, recalled the importance of housing for the French, the basis of their quality of life, and the dream widely shared to acquire a detached house.

The Prime Minister became aware of the serious crisis affecting new housing and made initial announcements, in particular the announcement of the 22 territories committed to housing: “we will continue”, he insisted.

The FFB has been warning about the current situation for months and recalls the urgency of immediate measures to meet the needs of the French. We must recreate the conditions for this dream of accession to become a reality again, notably with the redeployment of the PTZ.

The FFB now wants concrete actions to meet the high expectations of craftsmen and building contractors.

Furthermore, the FFB is awaiting the continuation of work to put in place the status of the private landlord so as not to reduce the supply of rental housing as well as the temporary suspension of the rules of the High Financial Stability Council.

This site visit also served as a reminder that construction is an essential sector in terms of apprenticeships and jobs. The testimonies of the employees present confirm the pride of participating in constructions of public utility.

Olivier Salleron, president of the FFB: “We take note of the Prime Minister's intentions after the warnings raised strongly for several months about the anger that is brewing. Producing housing remains an essential mission of the building sector serving the French, not only in the 22 territories but in the 1 urban areas in the country. After this start, we await the realization of the measurements cm by cm, m200 by m2. We have proposals. It's urgent ! »