Gabriel Attal wants to “search for all possible accommodation with his teeth”

The Prime Minister notably advocated raising the height of the city to deal with the housing crisis.

Gabriel Attal assured, Wednesday February 14, that he wanted “go and find all the possible accommodations with your teeth”with the objective that the “offer shock” announced by the executive produces “Tangible results in the next three years.”

“I have declared an emergency for housing in France (…) We are going to fight centimeter by centimeter, square meter by square meter, to find housing for the French. We are going to seek all possible housing with our teeth “declared the Prime Minister during a site visit to Villejuif (Val-de-Marne).

“The objective is to guarantee concrete, tangible results within the next three years”continued the head of government, accompanied by the Minister of Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, and the new Minister for Housing, Guillaume Kasbarian.

Around 30,000 homes expected within three years

The government retained 22 “territories committed to Housing” who will commit to building, within three years, around 1,500 housing units each, or 30,000 in total. The Prime Minister notably cited Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), Dunkirk (North), Dieppe (Seine-Maritime), Toulouse, Bordeaux, Marseille, Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine), Ferney-Voltaire (Ain) , Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).

To facilitate construction, the Prime Minister also mentioned the “elevation, particularly in town”. “In Ile-de-France, there will be an investment, including financial, from the State, and I hope that from 2025 we will build vertically in all the major cities of France,” he said.

Among the other measures outlined, the facilitation of the transformation of offices into housing via procedural simplifications for mayors, as well as “the creation of reversible building permits”which can move from an office building to a residential building.