Municipal in Villejuif: the thorny question of the HLM office

What future for the Public Housing Office? In Villejuif, where one in three housing units falls under the social housing stock, the electorate promises to be attentive to the fate of this public establishment, which manages 3,183 units in 18 residences.

And the candidates understood it well, at a time when the Elan law requires social landlords to come together to reach the threshold of 12,000 housing units. So how do you do it?

The outgoing mayor refuses “the addition of offices which have few means”. He believes that “it will not allow the rehabilitation of the park”, unanimously considered necessary.

Franck Le Bohellec (DVD) therefore relies on the creation of a mixed company including CDC Habitat – a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations – and in which, he promises, “the city and the OPH will remain in the majority”. “One way to find financial contributions while maintaining proximity,” he insists. The principle was approved by the municipal council in June 2019.

For Léonor Brucker (LREM), “it is a bit early to decide” without “all the elements”. But she is “not afraid of the CDC”: “It’s not a bad word. She leads a lot of actions and funding. However, we must be vigilant. “

“We have already known the CDC as a donor in the city, slice Pierre Garzon (PCF). He is an operator who easily draws the sale of assets he owns. However, these tens of hectares, belonging in fact to all the Villejuifois who gave to acquire it, must not be left to speculation ”.

The idea of ​​a referendum before the summer

He opts for the merger: with neighboring operators in the Grand Orly-Seine Bièvre territory, or Valophis at the level of the department. It will be up to the inhabitants to choose by “referendum”, “before summer if possible”.