“We wanted to take stock of what had happened since 2019,” begins Eric Constantin, regional director of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation. This week, the Abbé-Pierre Foundation presents the results of its latest report on poor housing in Ile-de-France, co-written with theParis Region Institute. Two years after the publication of the last report, “we saw that things weren’t really going any better”, he underlines. Since then, the crisis has deepened. The number of people placed in emergency facilities has increased by 80%, of people accommodated in hotels by 30%, and the number of applicants for housing in a precarious situation is up by 10%.
In the region, “there are now 1.3 million people who are poorly housed, as well as 2.9 million people in a situation of vulnerability in relation to their housing. In total, housing-related difficulties concern a third of Ile-de-France residents.
“Half of the colander accommodations are rentals”
The region represents only 18% of the national population. But it concentrates 24% of households living in energy colanders, 34% of HLM applicants, 39% of households evicted from their housing, 46% of people housed in structures and 60% of households recognized as priorities under the Right to Housing (DALO ). The problem of poor housing is particularly rooted there, in particular due to an insufficient number of housing units and their price.
“In addition, and this is specific to the Ile-de-France region, half of the strainer accommodations are rentals, especially private rentals,” says Eric Constantin. Behind this, there are therefore owners who are reluctant to renovate their homes. “A situation which should improve with the application of the Climate law, which provides that housing with an energy performance diagnosis (DPE) of the letter G will be withdrawn from the rental market in 2025, F in 2028 and E in 2034 (excluding seasonal rentals).
30% of rentals exceed the rent limit
If the Foundation recognizes “advances” in the policy of the town hall of Paris in the regulation of the private rental stock, in particular with the adoption of the rent control, it underlines insufficient measures. “More than 30% of private rentals remain above the rent control in Paris”, emphasizes Eric Constantin.
The measure was also adopted in Seine-Saint-Denis, in Plaine Commune and in Est Ensemble, two inter-municipal structures. But the director of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation would like an extension of the rent control to a wider range of towns in the Ile-de-France region.
Delay in the construction of social housing
After the fall caused by the health crisis, “social production in 2021 still remains nearly 20% lower than its 2019 level, with nearly 23,000 “social” rental housing approved in Ile-de-France against 28,594 in 2019, says the Abbé-Pierre Foundation based on figures from the regional housing and accommodation committee (CRHH). This represents only 73% of the objectives set. »
In 2010, the State and the Île-de-France region estimated that they would have to build between 32,000 and 37,000 housing units per year to reach 30% social housing in the capital by 2030. This year, “the objective [fixé à 31.377] is below these thresholds, regrets Eric Constantin. The State does not give itself the means” to fight against poor housing. “Knowing that the number of housing units actually built rarely reaches the set threshold,” he adds. At this rate, it seems unlikely that the State will fulfill its commitments by 2030.