“Bring the home and the workplace closer to employees”. This is the objective pursued by Patrice Leclerc, mayor of Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine), with the new residence Les Anettes, inaugurated this Thursday, September 25. Built on the site of an old parking Aerial, it is a two -minute walk -in foot of the metro station of the same name, on line 13, which places it less than 20 minutes from Saint-Lazare stationin the center of Paris, and about ten minutes from La Défense via the future line 15. A boon for Juliet*, a young computer engineer, who works precisely in the Saint-Lazare district and is a tenant of the Les Agnettes residence since the end of July, date of delivery of this Set of 58 dwellings.
These have the particularity of being Intermediate rental housing (Lli), Built by the property in’li, a subsidiary of housing action, the ex-1% employer. Developed for ten years, the LLI, which offers 15% lower rents approximately at free market prices, targets the middle classes, not eligible for social housing Or not a priority in the allocation of HLM, but which are struggling to accommodate at affordable prices in the private park in tense areas, where the demand for housing is much higher than the offer. This is the case in Gennevilliers, classified since 2024 in the Abis zone, the most tense in France.
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Not only Juliette is now working near his place of residence, but it does not cost him too much. For its three -piece new room of 62 square meters, located on the 5th and last floor, with triple orientation, this thirty -something pays a rent of the order of 1,000 euros per month. Within the private park, the only announcement for a property similar to Gennevilliers, on the Seloger site, offers a semi-recent T3 at 1,340 euros per month, a rent higher 34% to that of Juliette.
In fact, at 15.50 euros per square meter, the rents of the Les Lautes residence “are 22% lower than market prices free”nods Eric Balci, Managing Director of In’LI. Not to mention that La Foncière does not charge real estate agency fees to the tenants. And that the residence being built with the latest environmental standards, “Tenants will save energy”, underlines Eric Balci. In summer, “The presence of large balconies will keep the apartments in the shade”, Adds Dominique Renaud, associate director of the Architects Agency RVA.
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To benefit from these affordable rents, tenants’ income must not not exceed certain ceilings. Thus, in ABIS zone, a single person should not earn more than 43,953 euros per year to claim an LLI. Rights which amount to 65,691 euros for a couple, to 86,112 euros for a household with a child and at 102,812 euros for a home with two children. With her companion and their teenager, Juliette is representative of the tenants of LLI, “Employees, executives, engineers, aged 35 years on average»»observes Eric Balci.
With rents presenting such a discount compared to the market, the 58 dwellings of the Les Agnettes residence left like hotcakes. “They were all rented even before their delivery”underlines Eric Balci. More broadly, “For each LLI announcement, we receive 150 application files»»indicates to Capital Marie Lefebvre-Source, Deputy Director General of In’LI in charge of development and construction. In total, “Our website counts 140,000 people registered rental ads when we only offer 800 per month ”she adds. Ads that it is also possible to find on conventional real estate sites like seloger.
*The first name has been changed
