–Vote to freeze rents in 2021, for the tenants of the OMh du Grand Nancy (© Jean-Christophe Verhaegen – AFP)–
The context of the health crisis has created financial difficulties for the most modest. The Metropolitan Office of Housing of Greater Nancy will, in 2021, freeze the increase in rents for its public housing stock.
(BFM Immo) – “Concrete testimony of a shared solidarity”. In a press release published Monday, the Metropolitan Office of Housing (OMH) of Greater Nancy explains that it voted to freeze the rent for its tenants. This freeze will apply for 2021. “For the 2021 fiscal year, due to the context of the health crisis and the financial difficulties it is causing in particular among the most modest households, Mathieu Klein, president of the OMH du Grand Nancy, proposed to the entire Board of Directors of the Office, not to apply the regulatory increase (of rent, editor’s note) of 0.66% on January 1, 2021 “, specifies the organization. The OMH underlines that this effort is possible “thanks to the good management of the organization which knew how to preserve a financial balance in a very constrained context”.
According to its 2019 activity report, the OMH is located in 15 municipalities of the metropolis of Nancy for a little more than 6,200 housing units managed in collective housing.
All over France, tenants’ defense associations are calling for an effort on the part of social housing lessors. In the Allier, for example, the CNL 03 (local section of the National Housing Confederation) demanded a freeze on rents. AT The mountain, the National Secretary of the Confederation, Jocelyne Herbinsky, specifies: “A rent freeze will not generate a significant loss for the lessor, given that the IRI (Reference index of rents) for the second quarter of 2020 is 0.66%. on the other hand, it will be a gain for the purchasing power of households “.
A rent cancellation … canceled in Bobigny
We also remember that in full confinement, an HLM office had even promised to cancel the rents. Last April, the city of Bobigny had indeed undertaken to cancel all the April rents for the 4,000 tenants of its HLM office. A measure that was subsequently deemed illegal in July by the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture.
The prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis, Georges-François Leclerc, had estimated that this decision of Bobigny was “contrary to the principle of equality before the public service”. He had demanded the withdrawal of a deliberation of the municipal council which provided for an exceptional subsidy of 800,000 euros for the benefit of the Public Office for Housing (OPH), a sum which represented about half of the total amount of April rents.
At the time, the decision to cancel rents by the city of Bobigny was deemed “a little excessive” by Manuel Domergue, the director of studies of the Abbé Pierre Foundation. As he explained, “most tenants don’t have a drop in income.” However, the amounts involved are quickly colossal if such a measure were to be generalized. “You should know that three months of rent in the private and social park, this represents an invoice of 18 billion euros”, specified Manuel Domergue. The Abbé Pierre Foundation was then campaigning for a targeted device to help households in greatest difficulty.
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