HLM: This shocking text that wants to end social housing for life returns to the assembly

The polemical text of former Minister Guillaume Kasbarian at the end of social housing for life will be reappeared in the National Assembly this week or the following, indicates his rapporteur, Stéphane Vojetta, in Capital.

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Facing a housing crisis “Very hard”with in particular a new record of 2.8 million seekers of social housing, Emmanuel Cosse, president of the Social Union for Housing (USH), judge “Painful time spent responding to sometimes caricatured laws”. A tackle with the polemical text “ending life for life in social housing”, that the deputy together for the Republic and former Minister of Housing Guillaume Kasbarian had tried to have adopted in March by the National Assembly. In vain because the deputies La France rebellious having emptied it of its substance in committee, Guillaume Kasbarian and his colleague Stéphane Vojettarapporteur of the bill, had withdrawn it before his exam in public session. While expressing their intention to deposit it again soon, after changing it.

“We will undoubtedly submit the bill this week, or next week at the latest”responds to Capital Stéphane Vojetta, this Monday, May 12. As for the changes to the text, the parliamentarian indicates that they are not “Not yet engraved in marble” and that he therefore prefers not to “to specify” For now. The initial version of the bill provided in particular that, if a social landlord discovers that one of his tenants is also the owner of a housing “Adapted to his needs, or likely to provide him with sufficient income to access accommodation in the private park”he can lease.

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Increasingly poor HLM tenants

In terms of the evolution of resources, it submitted more tenants to the solidarity rent supplement. Today, this reappear is claimed from the tenant when the total income of people living in his accommodation exceeds at least 20% the resource ceiling conditioning the allocation of social housing. In Guillaume Kasbarian’s bill, the tenant had to pay an overview from the first euro of exceeding this ceiling. Finally, the text stipulated that if the surveys regularly carried out by social landlords show that the income of some of their tenants exceed, for two years in a row, from 120%, against 150% currentlythe resource ceilings not to be exceeded to benefit from an HLM, they will not have the right to remain in the premises, provided for its PPL.

Precisely invoking this type of surveys, Emmanuelle Cosse considers that “”To claim that the right to social housing for life is a lie»». “We are a very regulated, very supervised sector, while the bill suggests that we distribute HLM anyway. The housing crisis should not have weigh on HLM tenants ”rumbles the president of the USH, which brings together social landlords. Especially that “The last INSEE investigation On social housing tenants shows that they are increasingly poor ”she insists. In fact, in 2022 (latest data available), among the 20% of French households with the lowest standard of living, 35% resided in social housing, according to this study. A proportion that decreases “Strongly” Among the households with higher income, to fall to “”3% among the wealthiest 30%»»according to INSEE.