After a very good balance sheet in 2021, there is “a goal of 800,000” housing renovated in 2022 thanks to MaPrimeRénov ‘, indicates this Thursday on franceinfo Thierry Repentin, mayor of Chambéry and president of the National Housing Agency which manages the device. It will also evolve, becoming FranceRénov’. Since 2020, nearly 650,000 homes have been renovated thanks to MaPrimeRénov’, which has recorded 4.5 times more applications for its second year of existence.
franceinfo: Could this success of MaPrimeRénov’ have been difficult to follow financially?
Thierry Repentin: Very clearly, it is a substantial financial effort because it represents more than 3 billion euros in subsidies, which has made it possible to do nearly 8 and a half billion of works on all the private park. Most of it was used for energy renovation work and the fight against precariousness.
Are there points to improve?
The points to be improved come with the establishment of FranceRénov’, which is the public housing renovation service. It becomes the single point of entry for all work paths, from the simplest to the most complicated. We push the door and we have the information, the orientation of the households in a neutral and independent way.
For the moment, almost all of the renovated housing is that of owner-occupiers, the goal now is to go and find rental housing?
These are indeed the ones that need to be renovated. Today, whoever you are as an owner, you can be helped. So there will be a ramp-up of this system in 2022, in particular with a target of 800,000 MaPrimeRénov’.
How to encourage lessors to get started, since they do not pay for the electricity of the accommodation?
There are a little less than 5 million energy strainers in our country, it is an essential target. There are legislative provisions that will encourage landlords to carry out this work because, in the long term, it will be forbidden to rent them and there can no longer be any increase in rents for housing classified in F and G.