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Housing: the Abbé Pierre foundation deplores a dark year for 2023
Housing: the Abbé Pierre foundation deplores a dark year for 2023 – (franceinfo)
The number of households waiting for social housing is increasing. The Abbé Pierre foundation alerted, Thursday February 1, about the fate of poorly housed people.
In 2023, the Abbé Pierre foundation deplores a dark year for housing, with 4.2 million poorly housed and 12.1 million forced to occupy dilapidated, poorly insulated or overcrowded homes. This situation is worsening and affecting new territories, such as the countryside, but also new audiences, such as students. The causes are multiple: precariousness, the reduction in private rental supply due to competition from Airbnb, but also the fall in the production of new housing and the cessation of that of social housing.
2.4 million households are waiting for social housing
“Whatever we do today, even if we had a proactive policy, it would take years to reverse this negative trend”, explains Manuel Domergue, director of studies at the Abbé Pierre Foundation. In 2022, 2.4 million households were waiting for social housing, 400,000 more than in 2017. Gabriel Attal promised to relax certain rules. The SRU law, which requires municipalities to offer 25% social housing, could include intermediate housing.
