A “staggering” reality. Despite a difficult economic context, the Board of Directors of Tarn-et-Garonne Habitat decided, on October 28, to increase rents at January 1, 2025according to the rent reference index (IRL) of + 3,26 %.
For the National Housing Confederation (CNL), this could represent a increase of almost 700,000 euros per year for tenants, either around 58,000 additional euros per month. A situation burdened by inflation, which it is imperative to stop.
While citizens struggle to find decent housing, public policies seem increasingly disconnected from the reality on the ground. At the end of 2022, 900,000 households were in arrears with their social security payments,” denounces the CNL in an online petition.
To balance your budget, “Tarn-et-Garonne Habitat, like most HLM landlords in France, chooses to increase rents, but this policy of increases only postpones the problems without resolving them”insists Julien Sueres, militant of the CNL in Castelsarrasin.
A massive revival of the construction of social housing
Faced with a housing crisis which directly affects the economy and the well-being of citizens, the CNL calls for immediate provision of 320,000 usable vacant housing units and the construction of 250,000 new social housing units per year.
Its members also demand a strengthening of the SRU lawwhich imposes minimum social housing levels in cities: “France needs an ambitious, fair and supportive housing policy”they write.
In any case, in certain cities, the rental tension is such thatone in six employees gives up a job due to lack of accommodation et one in three students abandons their training because they cannot find a roof over their heads.
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