How to succeed in our transitions and rehabilitate the act of housing?
Organization News
Par Bat infosource: FFB Housing Pole
The National Convention 2021 of the Pôle Habitat FFB gathered yesterday, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, nearly 480 participants. The opportunity to address the major transitions in the sector, the causes of the deficit in the supply of new housing and our proposals to remedy it.
In the very short term, one of the major challenges is to transform the trial of the 2020 Environmental Regulations, which has been the subject of a positive compromise between ambition and technical feasibility. The reform remains considerable and will result in substantial and lasting additional costs, due to the three-year increase in requirements. This is why the FFB Habitat Pole asks for financial support for households, especially the most modest, and support for the sector over time with regard to the profound transformation induced by RE2020 in ways of building.
In a world where digitization has disrupted the uses and work processes of stakeholders, the FFB Habitat Pole expects the dematerialization of town planning authorizations to make it possible to concretely gain in fluidity and speed of instruction. On customer relations, the Digital Single-Family Home Construction Contract, a 100% dematerialized version of which was made available to members of the FFB Housing Pole at the heart of the spring 2020 containment, has already attracted nearly 23 households and demonstrates the relevance of the development of digital solutions across the entire value chain of the sector.
Finally, with the integration of the Global Renovator business, the FFB Housing Pole is evolving to support the development of an activity at the heart of public housing policies, already carried out by 13% of its members, by promoting the act of renovating, legible and reassuring for households.
On the economic side, 2021 is proving to be a mixed year for the different segments of new housing. Driven by still very favorable credit conditions and above all by a reaffirmed desire of households to enjoy a more spacious living environment closer to nature, the new home market continues to grow: + 24% over one year at the end of July 2021 in the diffuse sector, ie nearly 140 sales. On the other hand, land development and especially collective housing continue to suffer. Between 000 and 2017, more than 2021 authorized collective dwellings will have been lost, with a drop limited only to areas deemed to be tense for 50 years.
This trend is all the more worrying as the bidding machine seems to be racing once again to the detriment of new affordable housing.
Thus, the Pôle Habitat FFB has strong reservations about the proposal of the Girometti-Leclercq report on the quality of housing, which would consist in introducing a minimum surface criterion to benefit, by 2023, from the conditions of the current Pinel.
The same is true of the proposal to stimulate the generalization of local charters, without ensuring that project leaders are guaranteed the balance of their operations, via compensation set in due proportion to the requirements and desired performance.
Finally, applied without qualification, “Zero Net Artificialization”, as pursued by the Climate and Resilience law, will block any form of urban expansion and will further fuel the housing crisis (unmet needs and exponential rise in prices), as much as densification projects are struggling to find their audience. The Pôle Habitat FFB thus pleads for a clear and operational definition of the artificialization of soils and the introduction of a degree of local freedom of appreciation, in conjunction with local elected officials.
For Grégory Monod, President of the FFB Habitat Pole, "By dint of accusing new construction of" concreting and artificializing the space ", of" destroying biodiversity ", in a way of increasing climate change, a current of anti-construction thought has spread, to such an extent that a crane has become suspicious and a construction sign a threat! Aware of our sustainable footprint on the territories and our responsibility to anticipate, we have nevertheless demonstrated for years our ability to build more sober, more efficient and more sustainable. The environmental imperative, which each of us shares, must not make us forget that housing is a need as basic and vital as eating or breathing. Building to house households remains a powerful vector of progress, social and territorial cohesion. "