Five major players have, on the occasion of this campaign for the presidential election, established an “Alliance for housing” in order to bring out the subject in the public debate, to make it a major national cause for the five-year period to come and to formulate, to this end, common proposals. “Housing should be one of the four or five priority projects”, judge Christophe Robert, general delegate of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, in introduction to the hearing, Wednesday March 9, of six of the candidates for the presidential election of April 10 and 24 or their representatives: Geoffroy Didier (Les Républicains, LR ) for Valérie Pécresse, Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party, PS), Julien Bayou (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, EELV) for Yannick Jadot, Emmanuelle Wargon (La République en Marche, LRM) for Emmanuel Macron, Ian Brossat (French Communist Party, PCF) for Fabien Roussel and Eric Coquerel (La France insoumise, LFI) for Jean-Luc Mélenchon. To this great oral presidential candidates were not invited the two far-right contenders for the Elysée Palace: “They insult HLMs and their tenants, so we assume the choice not to invite them”justified Emmanuelle Cosse, president of the Social Union for the habitat which federates 593 HLM organizations.
“The housing crisis has rather spread, amplified and it is essential that the candidates take hold of the subject”, she argued. For Olivier Salleron, president of the French Building Federation, which brings together 50,000 companies in the construction sector, “we need to meet housing needs, achieve land sobriety and succeed in the ecological transition of the building at a time when the price of energy and that of materials are soaring”. Catherine Vautrin, president (LR) of Grand Reims, here both spokesperson for urban France, which brings together the city councilors of large cities, and Intermunicipalities of France, estimated, for her part, that ” housing [était] at the heart of the republican pact and national solidarity”. “We plead for a new stage of decentralization, from the State to the communities, because we must trust elected officials”she added.
Continuity of the first five-year term
Most of the presidential candidates had already been heard, on February 2, during the presentation of the Abbé Pierre Foundation report on poor housing. Emmanuel Macron, not yet a candidate at the time, intervened there in the form of an interview, previously recorded, with Christophe Robert, during which he defended his record more than announced a program. Emmanuelle Wargon was therefore eagerly awaited on Wednesday, with the delicate task of revealing a few leads without giving the details of a program apparently under development, but above all perilous to be, this time, spokesperson for the candidate – “on his volunteer time”specifies a press adviser – while being, full-time, Minister Delegate for Housing.
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