PLF 2022: Building professionals ask the government for an additional effort

The FFB thus welcomes the assumption by the State of the property tax exemptions on built properties (TFPB) in social and intermediate housing, as suggested by the Rebsamen Commission, and of the extension until the end of 2023 of the loan to zero rate (PTZ) in favor of first-time buyers, eco-PTZ which aims to finance energy renovation work and “Denormandie”, which supports the reconquest of medium-sized town centers.

It also welcomes the extension until 2022 of the “Censi-Bouvard”, in favor of rental investment by individuals in residences for students and the elderly or disabled.

In addition, the FFB notes the continuation, until the end of 2024, of the experimentation of the “Breton Pinel”, but regrets that any extension to a few voluntary territories has been refused.

On the other hand, the FFB deplores that once again, we load the boat on the requirements in "Pinel". In fact, to be eligible for the full rate system in 2023 and 2024, in addition to the new “quality of use” criteria already announced (minimum area per type, presence of a private outdoor space and double exposure from T3 ), housing will have to anticipate the 2025 stage of RE2020. This announcement is in total contradiction with the review clauses that have been planned to ensure the sustainability of this new regulation. And no serious impact study today measures the additional cost associated with all these cumulative requirements, and therefore the capacity to do so!

The FFB is also worried that the return of the individual grouped in the Pinel field, proposed by the deputy Mickaël NOGAL, has been refused. It is, however, a land-saving solution for housing families in or near medium-sized towns, which are in great demand today.

Finally, while the materials crisis is being re-fueled by the energy crisis, building craftsmen and contractors do not understand that their pressing request for immediate payment of any carry back receivables generated by a 2021-2022 financial year in deficit is being refused. by the government. This is only a cash flow measure, but it is an essential lifeline for certain structures caught in a turmoil that is beyond them.

Olivier Salleron, president of the FFB, recalls “Behind the aid, which is as urgent as it is essential to the survival of companies, which is the carry back, is also the issue of employment. Construction is the only major sector to create more than 70.000 net jobs since the pre-crisis period; breaking this dynamic would therefore have a much wider impact than for the sector alone! For all these reasons, the FFB will resolutely continue to support this request. "

As for Grégory Monod, President of the FFB Habitat Pole, he underlines that “Our real estate developers, local and sustainable players in the territories, are struggling to understand the motivations to tighten up to this point the conditions of eligibility for the" Pinel "scheme in a period of collective housing crisis in tense areas. Multiplying the requirements generates considerable additional costs to the detriment of affordable housing and would condemn the new supply to a long winter, both in terms of home ownership and controlled rents. "