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News from CECODHAS Members: France: Agreement on sale of social dwellings |
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10-12-2007
The French government and CECODHAS member organisation Union Sociale pour l'Habitat (USH) have agreed to sell 40,000 social dwellings per year to sitting tenants. Christine Boutin, Minister of Housing and Urban Development, announced earlier this week that an agreement will be signed on December 18. The agreement could not be reached in September, when the Ministry was moved to Lyon. At the time, Christine Boutin set the deadline to find an accord with the social housing sector to the 15th of December.
Miss Boutin declared that the agreement between the State and the social housing sector (HLM), is consistent with the government's objective of selling 40 000 social dwellings per year, specifying that this goal could be met by 2009-2010.To this goal, the HLM movement will commit to 'increase by 40 000 units per year the number of social housing dwellings available for sale from 2008, provided that the total number of dwellings to be sold does not exceed the number of new social dwellings financed over the year". Furthermore, the agreement wants to develop the construction by social housing providers of individual houses, as well as other measures aimed at reinforcing mobility within the social housing sector.
Source: Agence France-Presse
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