Owners, this brigade identifies your vacant housing to put them back on the market

The MIPIM (International Real Estate Professional Market), a world fair, which takes place in Cannes from March 10 to 14, is devoted this year to the difficulties that Europeans find in accommodation. Interview with Nicolas Kozubek, director of the Mipim.

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Capital: the “Housing Matters” conference on March 10, in Mipim, will present “Collaborative solutions to develop affordable housing”. Why did you choose this theme of affordable housing?

Nicolas Kozubek: Between 2015 and 2023, housing prices increased on average by 48% within the European Union. The cost of housing has been really on the scene for two years, when the real estate crisis began with the outbreak of credit rates, because The high cost of access to housing was even more strongly felt by the property and tenants. We are talking about people who do not have the means to live in a decent housing but also of households who cannot afford to buy or rent such a spacious property or as well served by public transport as it should be. However, there are solutions to reduce the cost of housing, which should be massified.

What are they?

Hors-site construction, for example, which does not date from today. She certainly had a slightly negative connotation after the Second World War, at the time of reconstruction, but it has been reinvented since. This construction mode, characterized by Factory manufacturing of a building Who will then be assembled on the site, allows faster production, at a lower cost but of good quality today. For example, it was used to build the Universeine site, which welcomed the athletes during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and which is now transformed into a residential and tertiary district.

Beyond its environmental virtue, wooden construction, too, can be less expensive. The proof with the social landlords Grenoble Habitat and Plurial Novilia, in Reims, who believe it a lot. There is also the subject of optimizing existing square meters.

What do you mean ?

In Europe, the cities of tomorrow are actually already all almost built. We cannot build more, which involves solving the problem of vacant square meters. In Roubaix, for example, there is a brigade responsible for identifying the vacant premises in order to hire their owners to put them back on the sales or rental market. The transformation of offices into accommodation is also a solution, as shown The Morland project mixed in Pariswith the retraining of tertiary premises into social housing and goods available for home ownership.

Finally, I recently discovered theflexible habitatdesigned by the Architecture Agency Tikoam, in the Southwest: the accommodation evolves with the life cycle of its inhabitants, thanks to removable closet furniture that adapts spaces to the number and age of the occupants. You should not identify too many solutions to make the housing affordable. What is important is to accelerate, to industrialize those that already work.

March 12 will take place at the Mipim the forum of elected officials. A one year from the municipal elections, should we not fear that mayors give even less building permit, aggravating the housing crisis?

Via this forum, where local elected officials and representatives of construction and real estate sectors will be able to exchange, we hope to have a small role in this area. Upstream of municipal electionsit does not serve anyone to be in a form of inertia on the pretext that a builder mayor is a beaten mayor. And especially not the more than four million poorly housed French people.