Gabriel Attal wants to “unlock” the housing sector to create “a supply shock”

The Prime Minister wants in particular to “review the DPE, simplify access to MaPrimeRénov” and “accelerate the procedures” to increase the creation of new housing.

“If there is one sector that needs to be unlocked, it is housing.” Gabriel Attal announced “a shock of supply” for this sector which is going through a major crisis, during its general policy declaration on Tuesday January 30.

“We are going to massively simplify the standards: review the DPE, simplify access to MaPrimeRénov’, facilitate densification, lift constraints on zoning, speed up procedures”, declared the Prime Minister. In “20 territories committed to housing”who will be appointed in two weeks, the government finally plans to accelerate “all the procedures, as we were able to do for the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the objective of creating 30,000 new housing units within three years”. Gabriel Attal also announced that he wanted “carry out requisitions for empty buildings, particularly office buildings”.

“Developing” the world of social housing

To encourage mayors to develop social housing, “we will [leur] give a hand for the first allocation in the new social housing built in their municipality”, continued Gabriel Attal. The government also intends “to evolve” the world of social housing in order to “support the middle classes”, specified Gabriel Attal. To do this, it will review the count of social housing that municipalities must respect under the law relating to solidarity and urban renewal (SRU).

“As you know, by 2025, all municipalities subject to the SRU law must have at least a quarter of social housing in their territory. We will propose to add, in part, intermediate housing, accessible to the middle class, in this calculation”declared the Prime Minister.

The entire housing sector is going through a serious crisis in France, due to a fall in demand linked to the drastic tightening of borrowing conditions, investors’ lack of interest in rental investment, considered less profitable, but also rising construction costs and land prices.