Lack of social housing: the City of Nice exempted from 11 million euros in penalties, an investigation opened

2023-11-04 06:20:00

The social housing stock of the Riviera capital is around 13.5%. The account is not there: to reach the 25% recommended by law, it would need to build more than 11,000 additional HLM spaces by 2025.

However, Nice is not taking this route.

Between 2017 and 2020, barely 700 additional social housing units were built. A deficiency which, in theory, should expose the municipality to heavy penalties: at the very least, 11 million euros in three years. At worst, double!

However, the City has not had to pay a single cent in penalties in recent years. State services exempted him from this.

This is what explains The chained Duck which, in its edition of 1^is November, reveals that the national financial prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the conditions in which the SRU slate of the Riviera capital was erased.

According to the “palmiped”, investigations for potential facts of “concussion” were entrusted to the gendarmes of the Montpellier research section in February 2022. They could lead the former prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, Bernard Gonzalez, who retired last September, to explain this nice tax gift.

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