the Senate unanimously votes for a bill against “degraded housing”

“First stage”. The Minister for Housing, Guillaume Kasbarian, was delighted, on the social network “an additional brick to secure the supply on the market and ensure the renovation of the housing stock for the French” after the adoption in the Senate, Wednesday February 28 in the evening, of a bill against “degraded housing”. This text, adopted unanimously, aims to offer tools to support fragile co-ownerships and tackle slumlords more harshly. The project was adopted in the National Assembly at the end of January.

The text intends in particular to facilitate work before permanent deterioration in fragile housing, of which there are 1.5 million in France according to the executive. It also creates a collective global loan, which trustees can request, in order to improve access to credit for these co-ownerships and to save time compared to a multitude of individual files. Another measure: a new procedure for the expropriation of housing affected by a danger or unsanitary order, with a view to anticipating possible situations of irreversible deterioration.

A text that “goes in the right direction”

“We wanted to create a text that would be as useful as possible to accelerate and simplify the renovation of this degraded habitat”greeted Senator Les Républicains Dominique Estrosi-Sassone, while calling on the government to continue “quickly” the construction site of a “great housing law” For “provide solutions to this great crisis facing our country”. “This text goes in the right direction but the absolute priority is the housing crisis”, underlined ecologist Antoinette Guhl. The socialist Viviane Artigalas, for her part, asked the minister “innovations” for the sector, “so that this crisis does not turn into a social bomb”.

Guillaume Kasbarian presented his first bill since his appointment in early February. Deputies and senators will soon have to agree on a compromise version of this text during a joint committee, with a view to final adoption.