She wants to launch a “major elevator plan”. The Secretary of State for Citizenship and the City, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, assured this Monday on TF1 that only “37% of buildings in priority neighborhoods are served by elevators”. And it’s true… and above all very little.
According to data from an interministerial report, dating from 2021 and unearthed by our colleagues at France Info, our country is under-equipped with elevators. And if to this report we add the last count of the Social Union for Housing (USH), our social network would only have between “55,000 and 60,000 elevators”.
France Info concludes by indicating that, according to INSEE census data, “more than half of French people who live in a building have to take the stairs”. Even more telling figures are that there are around nine elevators per 1,000 inhabitants, according to data from the French Elevator Federation.
While since 2018, the elevator is compulsory from three floors up, you who live in a building without an elevator, tell us about your daily life. Whether you live in the city center, the suburbs or the countryside, tell us how long your elevator has been unusable. Tell us why and what these breakdowns mean in your daily life. Stroller, shopping bags, bicycles for some, how do you manage heavy loads? You have always lived in this building without an elevator and are getting older, tell us how these steps became (or not) an ordeal. You are a person with reduced mobility, tell us if you had to move due to lack of a working elevator.
You can testify by filling out the form below.