The vote determining the next President will be held on 10 December

At the same time to the real estate crisis, anger rising in social housing. It will find a forum this morning with the opening in Cannes for three days of the Congress of the social Union for habitat (USH), which brings together the housing agencies. Their annual track should mention two subjects that get angry: financial resources increasingly more uncertain and questioning of their mission. The situation promises to be difficult for the Minister of housing, Christine Boutin, asked to close Thursday discussions with delegates who oppose further certain points of the Bill and criticized, in General, not to defend from Matignon, making budgetary savings to their detriment.

The budget allocated to the mission city and housing which includes social housing is down 8 in payment appropriations, learned in July, and the housing movement chaired by Michel Delebarre will take advantage of its 69th Congress to make the alarm: currently, the State disengages the social housing. "Funds from the 1 housing come to replace the money that the State should pay", denounced stone Quercy, General delegate of the USH. The reallocation of EUR 1 billion will allow the State to withdraw 800 million of the financing of the National Agency for the improvement of habitat, and especially of the national urban renewal agency to which he was paying so far 480 million.

The points in dispute

The USH worries about a decline in its resources, but also of several current legislative work. The relaxation of the solidarity and urban renewal Act the fact mount at the front. "We do not want it goes to the quota of 20 per cent of housing by the Commons", prevents Pierre Quercy. The Bill of mobilization for housing and the fight against exclusion, that Christine Boutin will submit to the Senate from October 14, contains also two disputed points. The first concerns the tenants of social housing have exceeded the ceiling. "We agree to strongly increase the scale of the surloyers, said Pierre Quercy. "But this with a continuation of the tenant in the Park social and not, as provided for in the Bill of Christine Boutin, his departure after three years," when the tenant more than twice the ceiling. Furthermore, with regard to the "plump dormant", these organizations HLM with funds that they do not, use the USH recognizes the need to drain their unspent funds in favour of a common fund, but worries about a possible retroactive character of the levy by Christine Boutin if it is based on the accounts of the previous year. "Some agencies have launched programs in 2006 and will pay their suppliers in 2009;" "However, if the Act becomes immediately operational, they will be taxed on the basis of their accounts 2007," explains Pierre Quercy.

With the rise of the uncertainties, the HLM movement will present today a founding project, a real Charter aimed to assert its identity and improve its functioning. And, behind the scenes, the two candidates to the Presidency of the USH will be positioned. The campaign for the estate of Michel Delebarre against two members of the Socialist Party: Thierry Repentin, Member of the Federal Council of the Federation of public offices of habitat, and Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, President of the Federation of housing cooperatives. The vote determining the next President will be held on 10 December.