poor housing is getting worse, how can we do better?

Tuesday, February 1, the eco duel of 23h of franceinfo opposed Étienne Lefebvre to Christophe Ramaux. The two economists discussed the decisions to be taken to combat poor housing.

Emmanuel Macron’s record on housing is at heart of the critics after the presentation, Wednesday, February 2, of the report of the Abbé-Pierre foundation. “It’s not a good record. Housing starts are weaker at the end of 2021 than they were at the end of 2017“explains Étienne Lefebvre, France and international editor-in-chief of the newspaper Les Echos. And the journalist adds that “the main problem in France is the lack of housing“and note”efforts to simplify and encourage“.

An opinion that does not share Christophe Ramaux, economist and teacher at the Sorbonne, who sees in this assessment “one of the darkest pages of this quinquennium“. He adds that the President of the Republic “had planned 500,000 housing units per year. On the contrary, we have a drop in construction, including social housing”. The member of the Attérés Economists association adds that for the quarter of the poorest French people, housing expenses represent 32% of their income, when this share is only 14% for the richest quarter.