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Housing crisis: in Nice, the solution of raising buildings
Housing crisis: in Nice, the solution of raising buildings – (France 2)
To deal with the housing crisis, Gabriel Attal wants that in 2025, all major cities in France will raise buildings in order to create new homes. Report from Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes, where projects of this type have already been undertaken.
Add one or two floors to existing buildings to create apartments. It is thanks to this that Amine Issaoui, tenant, was able to move into a two-room apartment of 43 square meters in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes). His home was built on the roof of his building. In another district, painters are putting the finishing touches on the 12 housing units created by raising a building during its rehabilitation.
5,000 buildings could be raised in Nice
Building an additional floor instead of an additional building is one of the solutions to the shortage of land in Nice and global warming, because the city lacks water and it has no longer been possible to artificialize the soil for two years. The city has already identified 5,000 buildings that could be raised. To speed up these constructions, real estate players are waiting for administrative simplification measures. Nice is one of 22 sectors in France and Overseas supported by the government to accelerate housing production. They will have to build 30,000 by 2027, a quarter of which will be social housing.
