Montreuil real estate : Mayor Patrice Bessac condemns cities that refuse to build social housing. #MySweetImmo

In Monroy, as elsewhere in France, the housing crisis is being felt painfully. Inflation, rising interest rates for borrowers, rental income that leads to a constant rise in real estate and rental prices, restrictive rental access conditions, the withdrawal of furnished properties from the market before the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, the reduction in the number of beds in hostels, the continuous increase in rents... All these well-known phenomena lead to one result: housing shortages and accommodation problems that force many of our citizens to turn to social housing and stay on the waiting lists for too many years. In Montrouy, the number of such people wishing to live exceeds 9,000, and in the whole of France, 5 million! "In these conditions, it is unacceptable that cities continue to refuse to comply with the law that makes it compulsory to build between 20% and 25% of social housing," explains the mayor of Monroue, Patrice Bessac. In Monroue, 39% of housing is social housing. Since 2014, social housing has even accounted for 42% of new construction projects. From 2020 to 2023, 1,252 new social housing units have been built! "In Monroy, we continue to work on the issue of social housing despite the huge needs. It is a huge effort, it is our responsibility and we are carrying it," emphasizes Patrice Bessac, adding, "In October, Monroue inaugurated 40 new social housing units, 97 rooms in a seniors' home and 144 dormitories for students. Since 2020, there have been built

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Voskreson or Boulogne-Biancourt: bad students in Hauts-de-Seine

In the Ile-de-France region, in front of the very eyes of the State, cities like Neuilly-sur-Seine, Voskreson or Boulogne-Biancourt have only 7%, 9% and barely 15% of social housing respectively. Patrice Bessac, mayor of Monroue, demands that prefects hold mayors to account: "Housing is a right, housing is a matter of dignity, housing is inseparable from our republican motto based in particular on equality and fraternity. Gentlemen prefects, use your power." According to him, the public housing service is the backbone of our social life.

Fighting the housing crisis also means fighting unworthy housing conditions. In addition to building new social housing, the City of Monroue is actively and financially involved in the inter-municipal program to fight against unworthy housing, which carries out many projects to improve housing conditions in the private sector within the Est Ensemble public institution. Within the National Program for the Renovation of old dilapidated neighborhoods (PNRQAD) of Monroux-Bagnolet in the ZAS Fraternite area, in the west of Bas-Monroue, programmatic housing renewal - urban renovation (OPAH-RU) has been underway since 2014. In this context, this program implements a deep renovation of all declared uninhabitable buildings. Each identified address is subject to public acquisition, possible residents are relocated and given the right of return (which the City is very attentive to) after the demolition-construction project or complete renovation of the building is realized, which allows for the co-creation of new social housing units with ANAH financial assistance. From 2014 to 2020, works amounting to 6.8 million euros were carried out on thermal renovation, plastering, roofing, electricity, networks, lead risk remediation, structures.... These works were subsidized with 1.4 million euros from ANAH, 440,000 euros from Est Ensemble and almost 100,000 euros distributed between CR IDF and CD 93. Approximately forty owner-occupiers with low or very low incomes have received significant subsidies, up to

Voluntary opening of temporary accommodation facilities

For several years, Monroue, together with the Regional and Interdepartmental Directorate of Residence and Housing (DRIHL 93), has been voluntarily opening a municipal gymnasium in December to strengthen reception and sheltering opportunities for people on the street and homeless. This program goes beyond mere temporary accommodation, creating the conditions for real accompaniment to avoid returning to the street, and continues the many solidarity policies implemented in Monroy (including the temporary accommodation opportunities open all year round in its territory). This solidarity effort strengthens the reception opportunities coordinated by Service 115, complements the temporary accommodation places already in existence in Monrouye and, above all, allows each person admitted to be carefully accompanied by social workers.