Urban France, represented by Nathalie Appéré, Secretary General of the association, Mayor of Rennes and President of Rennes Métropole, organized a press conference, by associating the Association of mayors of France and presidents of intercommunality (AMF), the Association of Mayors of Île-de-France (AMIF), the Association of Small Towns of France (APVF) and Intermunicipalities of France.
Not enough social housing, overpriced housing, rising interest rates, declining household purchasing power, the price of materials which continues to soar... the housing crisis is growing and all players are pulling the alarm bell.
At the same time, the State has postponed the conclusions of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) dedicated to Housing, initially scheduled for May 9, to June 5. For the mayors of big cities, agglomerations and metropolises, this sends the wrong signal and urgent action is needed.
Let's help the French to access affordable housing. To do this, it is necessary to maintain the aid in place and to strengthen it, to consolidate the French model of social housing based on long-term schemes such as the Livret A and the Employer's Participation in the Construction Effort (PEEC), and to promote social access to property.
Let's increase housing construction. A reform of property taxation is necessary in order to put an end to the withholding of building land. The objective of "Zero Net Artificialisation" (ZAN) must be able to respect the essential ecological ambition while meeting the diversity of the housing needs of our fellow citizens.
Let's make housing a real tool in the fight against climate change. The fight against global warming must go through an ambitious plan dedicated to the thermal renovation of the social rental stock and the private stock and to the fight against the 5 million thermal sieves, the massification of MaPrimeRénov' gestures and by consistency between the standards French and European energy sources.
Let's simplify the rules and decomplexify the action. Abusive appeals against building permits must be drastically reduced. In terms of energy renovation, it is necessary to better articulate the national and local aid desks and give more leeway to local elected officials, faced with the excessive complexity of constantly changing systems.
Urban France says it is open to the decentralization of housing policies, as desired by the President of the Republic, on the strict condition that the financial means are guaranteed. The State must remain fully committed to housing policies, in particular by maintaining the emergency accommodation policy, as the guarantor of national solidarity, social cohesion and the immigration and integration policy .
Elected officials from major cities, towns and cities call for:
- Reinforce the already existing and recognized delegations to intermunicipalities, such as the delegation of stone aid;
- To be able to manage all or part of the MaPrimeRénov' credits and the support service for energy renovation (SARE);
- Access the definition of zoning and all the tools of public regulation currently reserved for tense areas, such as rent control, regulation of tourist accommodation in order to fight more effectively against real estate speculation;
- Strengthen the right to experiment with land tools so that territories can successfully implement ZAN and combine ecological ambition and social justice;
- Broaden the powers and responsibilities of recognized local authorities Housing authorities, particularly in the fight against fuel poverty and substandard housing or the regulation and control of land.