In June the regional count stood at smics

At the end, the city of Marseille will engage in the implementation of the device of the Pass-land - this mechanism that separates the purchase of housing in the field - now extended to collective housing. She hopes to leverage the benefits of its aid to the home ownership policy since the results of the check first housing (CPL), three years after its establishment, are not satisfactory. And even if it passed 172 CPL distributed in March 2008 at 850 today, it is far from the 2,000 originally planned annually. "Brakes would rise gradually, but economic reality has helped us because the crisis has helped developers to find a genuine interest in our device", recognizes Arlette Fructus, Assistant municipal Habitat, housing and relations with the housing agencies.

The reluctance of the proponents were one of the main obstacles to implementing the CPL, which fit into a programme of "social ownership" broader imposing on them to put on the market 20 housing at controlled prices (not more than 2,600 euros the nine carrédans and 2,100 euros in ancient meter). CPL itself resembles a financial assistance of the city supported by four banks to reduce the monthly payments of primo-homebuyers whose income does not exceed the amount of the PLS (social rental loan). It also allows buyers to benefit from free parking for 15 years, with a portage of the Caisse des Dépôts, equivalent to a reduction of 10 of the price of new housing. Beyond the lack of enthusiasm of developers, the device was hampered by the complexity of financial records to mount and hesitation, compounded by the crisis, from prospective purchasers.

"Pass-land provides a price of accommodation higher than that of the CPL (2750 euros per square metre) but it is accessible to lower income." "The two systems are therefore complementary and I hope that they will facilitate the residential routes and reduce pressure on social housing, now completely blocked in Marseille while 80 of households are eligible for this type of habitat," said Arlette Fructus.

Blow of Accelerator

Social Marseille City Park total 71.300 units (sales for January 1, 2008), to confront the 32.800 requests registered on April 1 of that year. The rental pressure thus ten applications for available housing and in the light of the rate of rotation of 2008, it would take ten years to meet the annual demand.

The municipality therefore decided to top speed and voted in 2006 an ambitious plan for the construction of 5,000 per year including 1,500 housing. "This urban community manages now aid the stone, which gave a real blow of accelerator, the number of social housing funded from 500 to 600 on average per year to more than 1,700 in 2006", said Pascal Gallard, Deputy Director of the regional housing agencies association. "It should start to feel the improvement in production this year," he continued.

2009 Figures are also inflated by purchases of dwellings in Vefa (sales in future state of completion) by social landlords. Support for the construction of the Government plan had assigned the objective of 30,000 purchases of this kind at the national level, either between 3 and list for the Paca region. In June, the regional count stood at smics. "HLM of ACAP organizations had anticipated this system for a long time, the image of other regions where land pressure is very strong and it is still too early to measure the actual impact of these sales in Vefa", temper Pascal Gallard.

For some donors, the Vefa is a reality. This is the case for 13 Habitat (the former Opac of Bouches), double its production of social housing figures this year with this device. In the 15th arrondissement, Bouygues real estate comes to put the first stone of a 495 housing program, of which 260 will be social housing purchased in Vefa by 13 Habitat and Neolia and 290 will be dedicated to primo-accession at an average price of 2,350 euros with the aid of VAT at 5.5 (area Anru), check first home of the city of Marseille and soon Pass-land applied to the collective. On the first half of 2009, 2,200 requests for approval for social housing were filed. An unprecedented figure.

Strategy on downtown

The subject is followed closely by the Town Hall, which fears an imbalance of the offer with a predominance of social construction on private promotion. "We want to encourage social diversity through a harmonious of the homeowner and tenant operations, social and non-social development," insists Arlette Fructus, which said also gladly favour the application of a quota of 20 of social housing on each of the 15 districts of the city. A true revolution, pushed by the Socialist Executive of the urban community, while some areas north of the city have more than 40 of logementssociaux. But the increase in the quota in the southern districts - currently of the order of 5 - will take time.

The Town Hall also wants to implement its new strategy on downtown, through the judgment of the concessions of the SEM Marseille development for PRI (perimeters of urban restoration) supported way downtown-Noailles and the basket which expire on 31 December. The results of operations undertaken since the 1990s is not satisfactory: housing three is not restored and the procedure, primarily designed as a tax shelter financial product, showed its limits. "The homeowner of the 1st District rose from 36 to 27 in ten years, a disaster also fragile area", said Patrick Menucci, Mayor PS of the 1 and 7th arrondissements. The municipality therefore asked its SEM to OverDrive by the end of the year to release the most possible and find buyers put on the market of social housing and apartments in controlled price assumption. The balance will be drawn up in a few weeks with the key, a revision of the strategy of real estate restoration in the hypercentre.