Lodging: Michel Sapin announced “substantial” money – Le Figaro

Minister stressed, however, that it was a “delicate matter”. In 2013, € 17.4 billion were paid by the State in the form of housing grants.

The Minister of Finance Michel Sapin said Monday that there would be savings “substantial” in terms of housing policy in France, while recognizing the need to “extremely careful” in this sector. “We are one of the countries that spend the most (on aid to housing and real estate) with no outstanding efficiency, and I am rather an understatement,” he said during a press.

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France plans “sizeable savings are” in the coming years in terms of housing policy, said Mr Sapin. However, the Minister stressed the need to “be extremely careful,” both because of the construction sector’s economic weight and the social aspect “absolutely enormous” of housing policy. Mr Sapin said “questioning” in particular on the device personalized housing aid (APL), “board on which a parliamentary working group since last February to identify avenues for reform.

“Is this is a sufficiently fair and effective device?”, he was asked about the aid, accused of driving up rents in the tight real estate areas. Mr Sapin acknowledged, however, that the PLA were “a delicate matter”, implying that the question was less regionalize aids, or review the revenue caps as considering “personal circumstances”.

“The machine to depress the real estate market has recovered on the way.” Bernard Cadeau, president of RIPA.

A new report from three administrations, the General Council of the Environment and Sustainable Development (CGEDD), the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) and the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF), made proposals bumper like to end the attachment to the taxpayer of students receiving housing assistance.

In 2013, some 17.4 billion euros were paid by the State in the form of housing assistance (APL, ALS and ALF) to 6.5 million households, with an average amount of 225 euros a month, according to latest figures from the Ministry of Social Affairs. Following the announcement of Bercy on budgetary savings on housing policy and particularly on allocations, Bernard Cadeau, president of RIPA “shouts stop the fire”: “It is essential to say stop because if it must certainly consider a reform of housing finance, so do not do it with media hype, multiplying fears, increasing the mistrust that discourages investment and destabilizing, finally, the transition to the still hesitant act , “he said, before concluding” it is just recovering from the disaster caused by the law ALUR new threats hanging over the market. ”