The allocation of social housing did not comply with the obligation to allocate 25% of housing annually to the most modest households.
The social landlord Rives de Seine Habitat, the fruit of the merger of three HLM offices of Hauts-de-Seine, received a fine of 1.8 million euros for various breaches in the allocation of social housing, according to a decision of the Ministry of Housing consulted on Tuesday by AFP.
This sanction, pronounced at the end of April and revealed by the specialized media Batiactu, follows the proposal expressed by the National Agency for the Control of Social Housing (ANCOLS) at the end of the controls carried out in the three public housing offices (OPH) of Courbevoie, Levallois and Puteaux, which merged in 2022.
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In its control reports, the ANCOLS had identified that the allocation policies of the social housing of the three organizations were not in line with and that they did not respect the obligation to allocate 25% of housing to the most modest households annually.
-The ancols also criticized the OPH of Puteaux for having allocated 81 dwellings (on a sample of 122 controlled files) to households whose resources exceed the ceilings; not to, or badly, have applied to rely for it for tenants whose resources exceed the ceilings; to present multiple irregularities within its housing allocation committee; And not to have respects certain rules related to public procurement.
“Irregularities in the award rules”
The OPH de Puteaux had already been pointed out in 2016 for several “irregularities in the rules for the allocation and management of social housing” and a “serious management of management” in the development of a parking lot, which had earned it a fine of more than a million euros. The Council of State had largely canceled this sanction in 2018, on the grounds that the OPHs were not part of the field of control of the Ancols.
In a right of response to the 2023 ancols report, the Rives de Seine Habitat Office considers that “many observations and observations” are “deciduous” and that certain recommendations are no longer topical, given the creation of a new HLM office.
Rives de Seine Habitat ensures that “corrective measures have been provided on rental management”, that “most of the remarks and observations made by the ANCOLS will be taken into account” by the new entity, and challenges the shortcomings linked to public procurement. The ministry responsible for housing justifies the high amount of this sanction by “the gravity and recurrence of the facts, the financial situation and the size of the OPH Rives de Seine Habitat”.
