Social housing: MPs reject the law in committee ending the “HLM for life”

The National Assembly Committee on the National Assembly rejected, Tuesday, March 25, a bill to put an end to social housing for life. This text is carried by the deputy together for the Republic Guillaume Kasbarian, former Minister of Housing. He will be debated by deputies in public session on March 31.

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Next to three million. This is the number of people waiting for social housing in France, where 70% of households are eligible for a Hlmon the basis of their income. In the current context of housing supply crisis, “It is imperative to improve mobility in the social park, blocked for too many years”estimates the deputy Guillaume Kasbarian (Eure-et-Loir, together for the Republic), in the presentation of the reasons for its bill (PPL) “ending life maintenance in social housing”. A text rejected Tuesday, March 25 by the National Assembly Committee of the National Assembly, after the left -wing deputies emptied it with its substance.

Social housing must welcome “The French who need it most”had previously underlined the former Minister of Housing of Gabriel Attal. And to remember that “”Social housing should not be an end in itself But a step leading to the property “. His bill takes up certain provisions of the bill on the supply of affordable housing, which he had presented as minister last year but which could not be examined by the Parliament because of the dissolution of the National Assembly. A text which was not taken up neither by the Barnier government nor by that of François Bayrou.

Take into account the heritage of HLM tenants

Never mind, via his PPL, Guillaume Kasbarian gives on the table a strengthening of the criteria which end the right of the occupants of the social park to maintain themselves in the premises. 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.

Another innovation of the bill, if a social landlord discovers that one of its tenants is also owner of a lodgement “Adapted to his needs, or likely to provide him with sufficient income to access accommodation in the private park”he can end his lease. This, after a period of six months from January 1 of the year following the knowledge of this situation. Social housing to concern “Primities for modest people, The increase in heritage must lead to questioning the maintenance in the premises ”argues Guillaume Kasbarian, regretting that “The current law does not really allow to take into account the evolution of heritage situations”. This rupture of the lease will not, however, apply to tenants who, during the six -month notice, reach their 65th anniversary, nor to those with a handicap or paying for a disabled person.

More tenants subject to an overview

In terms of the evolution of resources, the bill subjects more tenants to the additional rent of solidarity. 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. If Guillaume Kasbarian’s bill is adopted, the tenant will pay an upload From the first euro of exceeding this ceiling. The text also deletes the exemptions from the payment of the upheaval which currently benefit from HLM tenants residing in priority districts of city policy and “France Rurality Revitalization” areas.

The rapporteur of the bill to the National Assembly, the deputy related together for the Republic Stéphane Vojetta, had estimated to Almost 30,000 Lhe number of social housing that can be released via this text. Insufficient number in the face of the magnitude of the housing crisis, have retorted left-wing deputies and the Liot group (freedoms, independent, overseas and territories). Five tenants’ defense associations had also denounced a press release “Hitchless instrumentalization of some marginal situations”. The Minister Delegate to the City, Juliette Méadel, praised on the social network X The rejection of the text:: “The inhabitants of the neighborhoods remain socially disadvantaged and if they live a little better for the neighborhood! We want social diversity, not ghettos ”. The bill will nevertheless be examined by the National Assembly, in public session, on March 31.