After having reaffirmed its desire to establish a national preference for the allocation of social housing, the National Rally now proposes in its program “establish priority access to social housing for workers in priority sectors». The city of Gennevilliersin the Hauts-de-Seine (92), although led by a communist mayor, did not wait for the result of the legislative elections to adopt municipal preference for social housing applicants.
He just signed an agreement with Action Logement: “1/3 of the accommodations are booked by Action Logement in our city, that’s a lot. The idea is to ensure that it is the employees who work in Gennevilliers or the residents who feel the housing crisis who benefit from this housing.», explains Patrice Leclerc, mayor of the city of the PCF, on the Facebook page of the city of Gennevilliers, on 19 June. “This will allow them to be the first to see the accommodations that become available for 80% of Action Logement’s offers.“, he adds. Today 400 people can request the same accommodation. Gennevilliers currently has around 17,000 requests.
A turnover rate of 3%
Why 80% of the offers and not 100%? “We wanted to leave 20% to leave a little opening» justifies the mayor. For the moment the agreement is experimental. A review will be carried out at the end of the year. “This is the first time in France. Unfortunately, this won’t change the housing crisis. Action Logement has a turnover rate of less than 3%. They implemented this procedure on their site two months ago, affecting 20 accommodations“, he resigns himself. Concretely, those interested in this agreement will simply need to go to the Municipality’s website and enter their address or that of their company. An algorithm will recognize them.
Until now the accommodations were assigned”to employees who sometimes work far away such as in Seine-et-Marne and live for example in Val-de-Marne», explains the municipality Parisian . «I want to do everything I can to put some oil in the very sequestered wheels of social housing. Anything that can free up social housing for the people of Genneville, I will do. This will make the market a little smoother, but not enough.», regrets the mayor in the video posted on Facebook.