Les Jardins de Stains, a pilot operation offering solidarity housing labeled Passivhaus in Stains (93)

While the Jardins de Stains operation is inaugurated today, it is a whole pilot operation, based on an unprecedented sociological approach to improve access to social housing in France, which is taking shape!

If at first glance the two buildings of 59 new rental units, located rue Jean Durand in Stains, look like a real estate complex like the others, it is nevertheless a remarkable project in more ways than one!

It is first of all, by the diversity of the partners involved: EPT Plaine Commune, the City of Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis habitat, the developer Plaine Commune Développement, the association Action Tank Entreprise & Pauvreté, Linkcity, Bouygues Building Ile-de-France, Atelier d'architecture Pascal Gontier.

All of these players have decided to join forces and their respective know-how towards the same goal: to produce ecological, qualitative and more affordable social housing.

To achieve this, they have implemented for the first time in France an approach based on a detailed analysis of the databases of housing applicants, in order to propose a tailor-made program: the right combination between typology, surface area and mode of financing. .

Integrated into the inter-municipal Eco-district of the ZAC des Tartres, Les Jardins de Stains embody a new model of more inclusive social housing through the improvement of the inhabitants' rest-to-live (what is left for a person or a household when all fixed expenses have been removed).

To remember

Beyond the issues of social housing in France, this pilot project, which aims to be replicable, leads to a rethinking of traditional methods of programming and real estate design of housing.

Reinventing the programming determination method to make social housing more accessible

Reverse the usual process by starting first with unaddressed or poorly met housing needs in the territory, then by integrating economic, administrative and political constraints, to end up with a social rental program that contributes to reducing inequalities access to housing in the territory.

Reinventing the housing design method to make social housing more affordable

Management by the overall cost of future housing (costs throughout the life cycle of the building, from its design, its operation to its demolition) as part of an integrated design method taking into account uses. Co-design makes it possible to break down the silos between the players in the housing value chain: all the players are mobilized from the start of the design phase and united around the objective of reducing the cost of using housing and increase in the subsistence allowance of future inhabitants.