Housing professionals fear a major and imminent crisis in new housing

Although it experienced a strong rebound in 2021 (sales at +21,5%), the market for new homes in the diffuse sector, which is currently supporting new housing activity, has been falling sharply for three months due to additional costs resulting both from the rise in the prices of materials and energy and from the implementation of RE2020, the tightening of credit granting conditions, as well as the implementation of "Zero Net Artificialisation" (ZAN ).

In terms of real estate development, the long winter that began in 2018 continues in grouped housing (sales drop of 13,7% compared to 2019) as well as in collective housing (-10,8% compared to 2019), particularly in areas dense. And there is no reason to hope for a reversal of the trend that has been at work for four years, as the local brakes on the issuance of new building permits remain powerful.

Since 2017, the prices of new housing have panicked: +9,5% for the house in diffuse, +26% for the grouped house and +11,5% for collective housing.

Faced with this worrying situation for affordable housing, in the wake of the FFB, the Pôle Habitat FFB calls for restoring the zero-rate loan to 40% without territorial discrimination, to introduce a tax credit of 15% on the annuities of loan, and to reconsider, in the perspective of the reform carried out by the FFB to create a universal status for the private lessor, the tightening of the conditions of the Pinel system for 2023 and 2024. To (really) relaunch new construction, it also invites to concretely implement several key proposals put forward by the FFB in the Rebsamen Commission, to define a sustainable framework for the fight against land take and to establish a real "permit to densify".

For Grégory Monod, President of the Pôle Habitat FFB: “It is urgent to become aware of the housing crisis in which we are sinking and of what this means for our fellow citizens, in particular the young and the most modest. The dykes give way one after the other: after the individual grouped, after the collective in tense areas, it is the turn of the individual house, so dear to the French, to enter into the turmoil because of the constraints affecting the new sector. Building to house is a vector of societal and ecological progress, an essential tool in the fight against social, generational and territorial inequalities. The situation calls for strong, powerful and rapid measures. They must both encourage projects and support the purchasing power of households. »