In this condominium in Seine-Saint-Denis, the daily life of the residents has become “hell”

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From dream to nightmare. Two and a half years ago, Charlyne invested “all his savings” in the purchase of “his first apartment”: a two-room apartment in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) a stone's throw from Paris and close to a metro station on line 12. But since then, the problems have continued accumulate for the young woman. Indeed, a building (B) of the co-ownership of 19 and 19 bis rue des Gardinoux, unoccupied and walled up to avoid squatters for many yearspoisons the lives of residents.

In 2022, the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis takes an imminent endangerment order for “unsanitary conditions accompanied by a temporary or permanent ban” on building B. One year later, in December 2023, it is the City which, this time, takes another order non-imminent endangerment in order to carry out “rehabilitation work” which includes the unoccupied building. But also the two adjacent buildings (the A) due in particular to problems in cellars.

A 20,000 euro hole blocking the work

But the co-owners cannot pay for this work in full, because Eurasia, which owns two apartments in building B, has not paid its charges since 2017. Today, their debt is estimated between 20,000 and 22,000 euros. Contacted, the group did not respond to our requests.

Consequently, the demolition or rehabilitation work on building B cannot be carried out. “As we didn’t have the funds, we couldn’t move forward with the work”explains Charlyne. Some have been carried out, notably on the upper floor of the cellars.

After several years of conflict, residents are today “weary” of this situation and a large majority wish to leave. But they find themselves stuck. “My apartment is unsellable,” says Charlyne, who says she is “going through hell” and “having cried a lot because of this heavy situation”.

One of her neighbors is facing the same problem. His apartment priced at 90,000 euros saw its value divided by three. “She would lose money selling it today.”

A recently appointed judicial administrator

Believing that she is in an “impasse” today, Charlyne asks that the town hall – which she believes is not responsible for the situation – does the work itself or “that she lifts the order so that we can all leave “. Contacted, the Aubervilliers town hall indicates to actu Paris what the order will only be lifted “once the prescribed measures have been carried outeither by the co-ownership or by the City in the event of substitution”.

It also specifies “that co-ownership is recently managed by a judicial administrator given its great difficulties” and that it will not intervene “in the daily management of the co-ownership”. From now on, she considers that it is “up to the judicial administrator to initiate any recourse that may be necessary in the event of unpaid charges. »

With the endangerment order, the town hall hopes that a “structural study” will soon be carried out to “establish the possibility of repair” for building B. Finally, if “the City were to ultimately replace itself, that would of course be at the expense of the co-owners to whom receipts will be sent by the State services.” A way out of the crisis therefore does not seem to be on the agenda.

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