The National Assembly begins examining a bill against substandard housing, without a Minister of Housing

No dedicated minister but a text before the Assembly. On Monday January 22, deputies began examining a bill to combat substandard housing. A text which arrives in the hemicycle while the government of Gabriel Attal does not have a Minister of Housing, pending the second wave of appointments.

“We have deaths in the streets and still no housing minister. We are in weightlessness,” denounces the ecologist Julien Bayou. “Technical” And “without global vision”the text on the program of the Assembly from Monday afternoon to Thursday is despite everything “welcome”, judges the elected Parisian, in order to fight against “slum merchants who oppose the work and reign in terror in condominiums”.

More than 500,000 unsanitary housing units

Christophe Béchu, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, will be on the government bench. He was already the minister responsible for Patrice Vergriete, who would like to be returned to housing when the government team is completed.

This text must “simplify legal and administrative procedures (…) to speed up work on degraded co-ownerships”, explained Patrice Vergriete in December. “The longer we wait to intervene on a co-ownership in difficulty, the worse it is upon exit”, he emphasized. Between 400,000 and 420,000 dwellings in the private metropolitan stock as well as 100,000 in Overseas France are today considered potentially unsanitary or presenting risks to the safety of their inhabitants.