5 euros for new social buildings in the suburbs

The controversy swells on the decline in the resources allocated to the housing construction. Friday, the public Habitat (OPH) offices of Seine-Saint-Denis and plain common Habitat (the largest agglomeration of Ile-de-France) estimated that, to compensate for the puncture EUR 340 million provided by the State on the HLM world at the national level, should, in their area, increase the average rent of 100 euros. "We all arrived, separate calculations, in the same order of magnitude." "Thus, in Aubervilliers, there are 8,000 housing and collection of the State will be 840.000 EUR, the calculation is simple," said Ugo Lanternier, President of the municipality OPH, recalling that "with the economic crisis, Aubervillliers, unpaid increased by 20 last year.

The announcement might be spreading in other tense areas, and was confronted Saturday by Secretary of State for housing Benoist Apparu, which indicated its intention to limit the increase in housing rents to rent (IRL) benchmark governing private rents from 2011, in an interview in the "Sunday Journal". For 2010, the HLM world believes that the increase will be 1.3 in the OPH ("Les Echos" from March 11), against 1 recommended by the State. The explanation "Last year, the State abolished the so-called credits Palulos financing the maintenance and rehabilitation," denounced the National Confederation of housing.

Benoist Apparu today wishes to fix rents not according to the date of construction of housing but according to the incomes of tenants, to avoid the situation where, in Paris, 30 of the housing rents are less than 5 euros per square metre, against more than 7.5 euros for new social buildings in the suburbs.

"Refusal to purchase".

If rents are not increasing, how to deal with the decline in aid "Should be 60 000 new social housing units per year in Ile de France." "However, we build that 25,000 and this figure will be reduced with blood," denounced the OPH de Seine-Saint-Denis. To free up resources, should be put on sale, as required by the State, 1 per year of the HLM Park tenants in place The State wants to reach 40,000 annual sales term. But, about a hundred of thousands of housing co-OPERATIVES as proposed, purchases do not exceed 5,000 this year.

"The refusal to purchase show anxiety co-owner responsibilities and economic uncertainty," Ugo Lanternier analysis. Benoist Apparu refutes this explanation. "We ordered in January a Sofres survey: on 967 respondents, 84 felt important that the lessee in HLM to become owner and, among the 300 tenants housing of the sample, 65 reported ready to be owners", he says in "echoes".

He attributed the failure of the updates for sale to the quality of social landlords or opposition, others with a high rate of success. This is the case of 3F, who signed 556 promises of sale this year. "Own funds raised through the sale of a home can be 2 or 3 starts, there is a multiplier effect on the Park," argues its Director General, Yves Laffoucrière, strong supporter of the formula.

Step if we build in expensive areas, such as Ile-de-France or Paca, challenge the OPH. "Given the price of land in the Ile-de-France, on average, own funds raised through the sale of housing, former so décoté, allow to build only new housing and rehabilitate another, said Stéphane Peu, President of Habitat common plain OPH. Because it has to be renovate, and rehabilitation is more the subject of no assistance from the State. However, it costs on average 25,000 euros per unit. "Sales could therefore at best, that maintain a constant social Park.