Since last year and our file dedicated to the association (read our edition of Thursday, May 25, 2023), Calade drought has not been idle.There were 40 of us in the association last year and today there are 65.”explain Rene Vaudantits president, a few days after the general meeting of June 7.
The Caladois says he received “enormously” calls. And not only from Beaujolais: people affected by problems with cracked houses linked to the shrinkage-swelling of clays in the soils living in the Paris region, Provence or Burgundy asked the retiree.
“There is no one who wants to engage on this theme elsewhere and we are starting to have a certain audience, even national”he explains.
Created in February 2019 by a small group of residents affected by this problem in Villefranche, Calade drought maintains the ambition of collective support for owners in their efforts to obtain compensation: advice and documentation, presence during appraisals, contact and advice from insured experts, lawyers or competent companies or even feedback and sharing with others disaster victims.
Members beyond Villefranche
Of all the members, more than a third are from Villefranche itself, the other third from the urban area and a few others from Anse, Blacé, ChasselayChazay or even Lancié. There were 50 of them, Barmondière room, during the AGM. If certain cases have managed to succeed since the first drought of 2018, René Vaudant is not upset by the overall slowness of the compensation processes.
“We feel that it is dragging its feet”, he complains. And present the case ofAnnie Legros, treasurer of the associationwhere the work done on her house was, according to her, “poorly done” for €40,000 eight years ago now and whose case is not progressing.
While the Senate recently rejected a bill to better compensate victims of cracks linked to drought, René Vaudant is arguing for the creation of a fund while natural disasters are expected to multiply with the climate change. Another potential fight to be fought and one that he hopes political leaders will take up.
