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Housing: the “social bomb” of tomorrow?
Housing: the “social bomb” of tomorrow?Geolintel - Dec 12, 2023
In the housing sector, many indicators are red.
increasing credit rates, declining real estate purchasing power, decreasing bank loans for homeownership, continued inflation of construction costs and land prices, additional cost of new construction estimated at +7% with the RE 2020 standard , weakening of support systems for accession and rental investment (new Pinel system), high prices slightly declining, construction in decline... So many elements which raise fears of a deep crisis.
The Prime Minister in her 100-day roadmap has already announced a certain number of measures to help communities build in tense areas. She also wants to mobilize the Caisse des Dépôts.
As part of the National Refoundation Council, the Minister of Housing must deliver his recommendations resulting from the proposals of the working groups. Most of the recommendations relate to the simplification and improvement of tax aid and measures. Other proposals would introduce major changes, such as regulating land prices, establishing a minimum density in certain areas for new construction, in order to limit urban sprawl, or financial incentives for mayors. builders, or the creation of a private lessor status. The IFRAP Foundation suggests not adding to it with regulations that are already helping to paralyze the housing market.
Interviewed recently, the President of Medef declared “what I see is businesses that are functioning, an economy that is holding up rather well. Except for a housing problem. New construction is slowing to a crawl. The year 2023 is not going to be good and the year 2024 is going to be catastrophic”, even evoking “a time bomb”. It should be remembered that the construction industry employs 1,592 million employees in France in the fourth quarter of 2022. As echoed by the boss of Medef, the Minister of Housing, Olivier Klein, recently interviewed in the Senate, announced "the situation is not good", not hesitating to speak of “the social bomb of tomorrow!” » Véronique Bédague, CEO of Nexity, the leading French real estate development group, speaks of a “shock of crazy violence”. It must be said that in less than a year many clouds have gathered over the housing sector, affecting both supply and demand. A subject of concern, because according to INSEE, housing represented on average 22% of the expenses of the 20% of the lowest-income households, ahead of food (18%) and transport (14%).
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Tomorrow all gypsies? Sorry, everyone in “Tiny House”!
Tomorrow all gypsies? Sorry, everyone in “Tiny House”!Insolentiae – Nov 23, 2023
I really like motorhomes, caravans and freedom, so I would not allow myself to criticize the lifestyle of our “travelers” as we modestly say and our “gypsy” as we say less so. politically correct.
So it was just for the rhyme and also for an intellectual provocation inviting reflection on housing in general.
The best is always the enemy of the good.
Our policies are in a kind of normative and ideological headlong rush, and also demagogic.
Always please some, but always with other people's money.
So building becomes terribly expensive.
Complex and multiple standards serving safety, climate, PMR, ABF, Enedis, Firefighters, etc. There is always a good excuse. Always a good reason of course.
Ever higher construction costs, in production but also in design.
Housing has never been theoretically so high quality.
Also high quality and also comfortable.
Thus each wheelchair can go to the toilets of any new accommodation, even on the 16th floor provided that the elevator is not broken. All this is very laudable. The problem is the cost of massifying “perfection”. As we don't have the means, well it's simple, there isn't enough cheap HLM housing.
Result?
In Brittany, a town invents the first village of tiny houses, some of which are in HLM!
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Thermal colanders: after the ban on renting, that of selling
Thermal colanders: after the ban on renting, that of sellingCounterpoints - March 26, 2023
Europe claims to accelerate the movement and remove thermal colanders and to do this, it has found nothing better than to ban their sale.
Being the owner of a thermal sieve in France is bad! It's so bad that if your property's Energy Performance Diagnosis score is classified F or G, you no longer have the right to rent it without having renovated it beforehand.
This is how we could very briefly summarize the mechanism concerning the rental of the Climate and Resilience law of August 22, 2021, which will have a fairly significant impact. Indeed, according to the results of a study undertaken by the FNAIM at the end of 2022, 500 housing units will slowly but surely be released from the rental sector.
This study also indicated that the owners were not resistant to this upgrading. If they don't, it's mainly because they have no choice.
Thus, 93% of respondents explain their difficulty in carrying out the work because of the cost, 60% mention technical problems and finally 40% specify that to launch them they are dependent on the decisions of co-ownership and the deadlines imposed on them by the community.
Still, there will be roughly 500 fewer homes available for rent, which will be added to the three million already vacant, thus accentuating the difficulties of finding accommodation.
This French provision only directly targeted lessor owners, indirectly impacting owner-occupiers since the price of their property began to depend on the label of the DPE and therefore to vary according to it.
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RE2020: new regulations in force to build from 2022
RE2020: new regulations in force to build from 2022Alternative Roofs - Dec 12, 2022
Each new construction must meet standards, particularly in terms of thermal regulations. In 2022, the RE2020 replaced the RT2012.
The building sector is today the largest consumer of energy in France. In 2022, the Thermal Regulation 2020 (RT2020), also called Environmental Regulation 2020 (RE2020), replaced RT2012.
Residential projects that require the filing of a building permit or a prior declaration of work must comply with these measures from January 1, 2022. The goal: to enable new construction to meet future climate challenges. Indeed, as indicated by the IPCC, after transport, the building sector is the largest emitter of CO2 (10 solutions to effectively reduce our greenhouse gases). What changes with the new RE2020?
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Unbuildable land: what the law authorizes for alternative habitats
Alternative Roofs - Dec 12, 2022
In a previous article, you were presented with an overview of the legislation concerning alternative habitats.
We explained to you that to install an alternative house (yurt, Tiny House, trailer…) no building permit was required. On the other hand, yurts, Tiny Houses, caravans and other removable dwellings cannot be installed on any terrain. So, is it possible to put an alternative house on a non-constructible land?
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Market gardeners, they live in mobile homes and risk eviction
Market gardeners, they live in mobile homes and risk evictionReporterre - Dec 10, 2022
The mayor of Maché (Vendée) wants to evict a couple of market gardeners from the mobile home installed on their farm. They must pay 50 euros per day of on-call duty.
“Psychologically, it's very hard. We are exhausted. Will Adrien and Marine have to say goodbye to their mobile homes, installed in their agricultural shed? This is what worries the two market gardeners. This summer, the mayor of Maché, in the Vendée, gave them formal notice under penalty to leave the premises. Since November 8, the couple must pay 50 euros per day of on-call duty. They resist, not without difficulties.
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Housing crisis: 5 threats hanging over France
Housing crisis: 5 threats hanging over FranceMr Globalization - Oct 17, 2022
With the multiple economic troubles suffered by the country and galloping inflation, the housing crisis has probably not finished talking about it.
Touching on the environmental and above all social issue, it could well become one of the main issues in the coming years. Overview of its major components.
As winter approaches, the issue of thermal colanders will inevitably come back to the fore. And for good reason, France has no less than 7,2 million homes with little or no insulation. Of these, 5,2 million are main residences, or 17% of the housing stock. The rest represents second homes (1,2 million) and vacant homes (800).
