“23,000 applications for social housing pending”: the Department's communist elected representatives sound the alarm

Le bailleur social est en grande difficulté. Midi Libre – MiKAEL ANISSET

Pour la première fois, le conseil d’administration d’Habitat du Gard a voté un budget 2025 en déséquilibre et annonce une perte de recettes de 4,9 M€.

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The vote on the deficit budget of Habitat du Gard alarms the elected communists of the Departmental Council who, in a press release, denounce “a hard blow to the social housing sector in our department while thousands of Gard households depend on the leading social housing lessor” which manages 15,000 social housing units in 76 Gard municipalities.

They are all the more concerned because this tense situation does not only concern Habitat du Gard, “it reflects the structural difficulties encountered by all social landlords, both locally and nationally”.

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With such a budget, how will this lessor be able to maintain and develop its real estate portfolio, renovate existing housing and respond to the 23,000 pending applications”, ask Christian Bastid, Vincent Bouget and Denis Lanoy. The situation is particularly worrying in Nîmes, where the pressure is already very high “and candidates for social housing see their chances of finding housing diminish”.

As part of the Anru, financed by the State and Nîmes Métropole, “the Gard Department, for its part,
finances more than €19.5 million in urban renovation with social landlords. We also contribute more than €3 million each year in loan guarantees to all social landlords”.

Following the observation, the elected officials call for mobilization and concrete proposals: “We are calling on the government to review its social housing policies and increase the resources allocated to landlords and for the State to revalue APL”. At the local level, the PC suggests quickly bringing together all the stakeholders concerned in order to build a common strategy to overcome this crisis.

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