During a trip to Marseille on April 23, Sébastien Lecornu and his Minister of the City and Housing, Vincent Jeanbrun, announced the imminent arrival of a new housing recovery program from the National Agency for Urban Renovation. “Relaunching construction is not enough to deal with the housing crisis. We also need to fundamentally transform the neighborhoods that need it most. Today in Marseille, we are launching the third urban renewal program: ANRU 3,” the Prime Minister declared at the time.
The government has since worked on the file and will present its bill to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday June 24. L’Opinion has had access to the bill and reveals its main measures.
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A plan with five billion euros
According to article 1is of the text, the “ANRU 3” aims for the “Republican reconquest”, “the overall revitalization of the most fragile neighborhoods and urban centers” and targets “as a priority the neighborhoods presenting urban dysfunctions or security, environmental and accessibility vulnerabilities, linked to the weak presence of the most important public services or economic fabric”. This program covers the period 2026-2040, with an investment of five billion euros from the State.
Six objective le structurent : « la sûreté et la reconquête r©publicaine » ; « les services publics du quotidien » ; « la revitalisation économique et l’emploi » ; « la transition é©logique et la résilience climatique » ; “The social mix and the désenclavement”; enfin, « l’éducation, la santé et l’accessibilité universelle ».
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Simplification of construction in certain neighborhoods
The government’s flagship measure aims to establish “Operations of Local Interest” (OIL). To restart construction quickly and efficiently, the prefects may authorize, only in certain priority areas, that construction sites for main residences deviate from “one or more” rules set by the local town planning plan.
The prefecture must, however, “ensure the proper insertion of constructions into the existing fabric and ensure that the exemption(s) do not harm public health and safety, the conservation of a site, access roads, the supply of drinking water and sanitation.” “.
These exemptions would run for ten years, easing certain projects and shortening administrative procedures.
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Exemptions from energy renovation constraints
Faced with the rental supply crisis, the government is tackling the energy performance diagnosis (DPE). He proposes opening exceptions for so-called “thermal sieve” housing, which is partly prohibited for rental. When work is impossible for technical or financial reasons, or a general meeting of co-owners has refused it in the previous eighteen months, the lessor may still rent out his property. The same will apply if he undertakes, with a supporting contract, to undertake renovation work within a period of three years for a house and five years for a co-ownership.
The text also provides for new tax incentives for major rehabilitation and the transformation of premises into housing, as well as the option for social landlords to increase certain rents for housing over forty years old after energy improvement work during re-rental.
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More power in the hands of local communities
The bill also strengthens the power of local authorities. Metropolises and urban communities become “housing organizing authorities”, inheriting new powers previously falling under the State, such as granting aid. Local authorities will be able to set maximum rents for social housing higher than the national ceilings, within certain limits.
The mayor will now chair the social housing allocation commission. It will thus be able to propose the ranking order of candidates for public contracts and will also have a right of veto in the event of a risk of disturbances to public order.
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Specific measures in the Defense district
Absent from the Prime Minister’s Marseille announcements, this component nevertheless appears in the project. Its central measure consists of the establishment of a “certificate” for project leaders in the Defense district.
The objective: to provide administrative support to any developer who would like to transform premises, particularly offices, into apartments. Some conditions still apply, including that relating to the minimum surface area of the premises to be transformed (20,000 m2 at least).
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