“We are in a very strong tension situation”: the crisis of poor housing worsens in Occitania

After the publication of the National Housing Evil Report, Sylvie Chamvoux, director of the Occitanie Regional Agency of the Foundation for the Housing of the disadvantaged, ex-Father Pierre-Pierre, draws up an inventory in Occitania.
If the conclusions of the thirtieth report on the state of poor housing in France were made public this Tuesday by the foundation for the housing of the disadvantaged (ex-Father Pierre-Pierre), it will be necessary to wait until the beginning of March, to know those relating to the ‘Occitanie.
However, Sylvie Chamvoux, director of the regional agency of the Foundation, agreed to lift a veil on this data from the year 2024, and to draw up the inventory for this territory.
“Compared to the National, we are generally on the same trend, but by situating ourselves in the high average, both in terms of housing and accommodation we are in a very high tension situation, which is felt in a prevalent way on Metropolises, especially Montpellier “ She thus indicated in the preamble.
An unprecedented demand for social housing
Before announcing that the number of seekers of social housing in Occitania had reached in 2024 an unprecedented threshold: “We counted more than 200,000 applicants in 2024. 200,000 requests in progress, not satisfied. These are people who renew these requests each year, but certain households eventually abandon. We therefore have a reality undervalued by compared to the number of households that would need to have access to social housing. “
“An allocation of accommodation for nine requests in Hérault”
And to specify that “More than 70 % of the inhabitants of the region could, by their level of income, be entitled to social housing”. Sylvie Chamvoux also noted a net “Lighting the deadlines between the moment when the person files his request and that when he can be assigned. It is in the Hérault that the tension is strongest, with, in 2024, an allocation of accommodation for nine requests. And in Montpellier, we mount an allocation for ten requests. These are very strong indicators. “
“A double penalty in unworthy accommodation”
At the time, households who fail to obtain social housing turn to the private park. And for them, as deplored by the regional director of the Foundation, “It is often the double penalty, especially in a sector like the Montpellier metropolis, where the rents of the free market are very high: because these households often have access to unworthy, or degraded accommodation, for which they pay very rents higher than those of social housing.
“A blatant lack of accommodation places”
It remains to evoke the most painful cases, “Those of households without solution that sleep in makeshift shelters”. And Sylvie Chamvoux to denounce “A blatant lack of accommodation places in Occitania. The 115 listeners every day, from 9 a.m., tell all those who call them that there is nothing available, to recall the next day. So we prioritize. she sighs.
While also regretting “A resurgence of rental expulsions. During the Cavid, at the request of the government, there was a stop on the expulsions. There it is really distributed, in particular for these tenants in the private park and confronted with very big difficulties financial. “