Social housing France

When access to housing is synonymous with failure, ALG, which specializes in rental housing of a social nature, can accompany this research often difficulties. Receiving requests from underprivileged publics, the Intervenants Boutique's stakeholders are missionnés to guide people to the devices of assistance to (re) housing. They animate housing research workshops and - essential component - get through offers. ALG also manages high-emergency housing.

Orvitis is a departmental housing operator, as well as a developer and social landlord. With a presence in the Dijon Métropole area, Orvitis has nearly 5,000 homes in this region, out of a total of 13,500 in the whole of the Côte-d'Or, mainly apartments but also detached houses. Orvitis' offer is aimed at the widest possible range of people, whatever their age or situation. Homes are eligible for APL and can be adapted for people with reduced mobility. The sales office on Place de la République provides local advice and studies the needs of each individual to find a suitable solution.

For existing properties, modernization work focuses on accessibility and thermal performance, with the aim of reducing energy bills for occupants. Orvitis is also working on home adaptation projects and the construction of Sérénitis residences for the independent over-65s, to help them stay in their own homes for as long as possible.

As part of its efforts to combat"passive heating", by 2030 Orvitis will have undertaken thermal renovation work to ensure that there are no E, F and G energy label homes in its portfolio. in this way, 1,500 homes will be renovated, i.e. 150 each year.
In Dijon, Orvitis will complete the renovation of 216 homes in the Fontaine-d'Ouche district in early 2023, and has begun restructuring the "ILM" building, located 14 to 30 rue Ernest Renan, by deconstructing three stairwells to divide the building into three residential units comprising 90 homes, including a Sérénitis residence.

Odifis, the structure reserved for transactions, facilitates home ownership. Buying building land, houses or apartments. For secure, step-by-step home ownership, rent-to-own for new homes, detached houses or apartments.

Sérénitis is reserved for senior residences offering proximity and services.

Locizy is for students, apprentices and young workers under 30.

Need help or advice to buy, rent, build or renovate? Action Logement, which collects the Participation des Employeurs à l'Effort de Construction (PEEC, formerly 1% logement) from companies with more than 10 employees, offers a whole range of services and assistance to facilitate access to housing, and thus help students, work-study students and employees of non-agricultural private-sector companies to find a job. Specific offers exist for employees in the agricultural sector, consult Action Logement. Around 8 out of 10 French people are eligible for at least one form of assistance offered by Action Logement.

CIL-PASS ASSISTANCE® : assistance for employees in the private sector (including the agricultural sector) facing personal and/or professional difficulties that are creating a financial imbalance or making it more difficult to maintain or gain access to housing. This assistance is free and confidential (conditions in branch).

MOBILI-JEUNE aid: Action Logement provides a subsidy of up to €100 per month for the duration of a training contract for people under 30 on a professionalization or apprenticeship contract. The application must be renewed every year, conditions in agency.

Home improvement loan: also available subject to conditions, this loan finances all or part of home improvement projects (conditions and list of eligible projects available from the branch).

Accession loan: issued subject to conditions, this contributes to the acquisition or construction of a new home, or the purchase of an existing HLM home. The maximum amount is 40,000 euros at a reduced rate of 0.5% (excluding compulsory insurance) over a maximum repayment period of 25 years.

LOCA-PASS® advance: interest-free repayment of the security deposit required on moving in.

VISALE: rent and service charge guarantee for private housing. It covers unpaid rent for the duration of the lease for private-sector housing. Visale is open to all young people under the age of 31 and employees aged 31 and over, subject to a means test and depending on the type of employment contract. Visale also covers all young people under the age of 31 living in collective structures, as well as students and work-study students living in social housing.

Work-study scheme: https://alternant.actionlogement.fr/. This site, set up in conjunction with the Regional Councils, provides an exhaustive list of all the assistance available to work-study students (housing, transport, sport, culture, etc.).

In addition Action Logement can support you throughout your career.

Action Logement has a reserved housing stock in Côte-d'Or, and especially in the Dijon area, for employees of non-agricultural private sector companies.

Action Logement offers employees a real estate brokerage service, which searches through its financial partners for the solution best suited to your situation when purchasing a property. This service is personalized and free of charge.

A major social lessor, in Nîmes, a Roof for All manages new and old social housing and plays an intermediary role between owners and tenants, especially when there are disputes. A Roof for All, which has led to beautiful renovation operations in the protected area of the city centre, offers various categories of apartments in Nîmes and its agglomeration. Same allocation system as for offices HOUSING.

Auvergne Habitat has a portfolio of more than 18,000 housing units in the Puy-de-Dôme, Allier and Haute-Loire departments. Each year, nearly 250 new homes are built and offered for rent. In addition to the construction, rehabilitation and management of housing, Auvergne Habitat is involved in various fields: housing for people in difficulty, travellers, disabled people, dependent people, students or young people on work-study schemes and social home ownership.

Assemblia defines itself as a link builder. Much more than a social landlord, it is the result of the merger between Logidôme and SEAu. It has thus become the first multi-activity company in the housing sector. The Entreprise Publique Locale offers nearly 10,000 housing units for rent, mainly located in the Clermont-Ferrand metropolitan area. Each year, the organization allocates approximately 900 housing units. Assemblia is developing its portfolio with regular construction, rehabilitation and energy renovation of housing.

Ophis manages housing across the Puy-de-Dôme département and in Saint-Flour, Cantal. With almost 17,000 homes, Ophis is involved in three activities designed to improve the living environment: social landlord, social housing developer, and developer and service provider for local authorities. It is the leading social landlord in the département. Ophis builds hundreds of new homes and renovates just as many. Ophis is committed to sustainable development and quality, and holds ISO 9001 certification.

CDC Habitat, formerly SCIC Habitat Bourgogne, remains the^third largest social landlord in Dijon, the largest in Quetigny and the^second largest in Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur, with a portfolio of more than 8,700 homes in Burgundy. It has become the^leading social landlord in France following reorganisation. CDC Habitat is a social housing company, a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations at the service of local authorities. CDC Habitat Dijon builds about 100 new homes every year. The old rental stock is considerably renovated in order to optimise the energy performance of the buildings and to reduce their costs. CDC Habitat offers its clients a residential pathway with a range of new homes in response to their demands. Some tenants can become homeowners by purchasing their own home or one of the 50 units put up for sale each year. The offer ranges from studio to T5. You can also opt for a new home via the rent-to-own scheme, known as PSLA, a low-cost scheme in which some twenty homes are offered with clauses to secure the buyer. Visit theCDC Habitat website where you can register your housing application online. Otherwise, visit one of the three agencies in Dijon, Quetigny and Beaune.

Habitat 25 offers apartments and houses for sale or rent for rent in the entire Doubs department. This has not inconsiderable advantages: one month of deposit, rent payable at end of month and no file fee. However, Habitat 25 reserves its benefits to households whose incomes do not exceed a certain ceiling. You can view the terms on their website and download an admission folder.

Real estate agencies are not missing in Nîmes. The functions of housing of a social character are more relevant to the associations or institutional institutions of the Gard. This office for moderate rental housing is the first social lessor in the department. It manages thousands of collective and individual homes, distributed over the Nîmes Centre sectors, Escutcheon, outlying neighbourhoods. As with any demand for HOUSING, a file must be removed from the seat. Waiting times prior to the appointment committee vary depending on the request (type of accommodation, situation, availability).

The mayor of Annecy, Jean-Luc Rigaut, is also the president of the community of municipalities of the annécienne agglomeration and general counsel. As far as social housing is concerned, you can contact the Housing service at the Social Action Branch at 04 50 33 87 49, Monday to Friday from 8 a. m. to 12 p. m. and from 13 p. m. to 17 p. m.

If you wish to access one of these accommodations, you will need to meet certain regulatory conditions. For example, your annual resources will have to be below a certain ceiling. In practice, if you have trouble making ends meet, please do not hesitate to use this agency to inquire about your rights and complete a file. Whether you are alone or with your family, different accommodations are available from studios to home. Elderly people, students, apprentices, young workers, disabled persons, people with great social difficulties… can claim shelter through Homes.

With almost 11,000 housing units, GRAND DIJON HABITAT has become Dijon Métropole's leading social landlord over the decades. Originally created by the city of Dijon in 1926 to build the first emergency housing estates, the social landlord is now over 90 years old. For several years now, its territory of action has been that of the agglomeration, and it is present in 14 of the 23 communes of the Dijon metropolitan area. Since the health crisis, GRAND DIJON HABITAT has worked to improve the relationship between the landlord and its tenants, by setting up a reception service with priority given to appointments.

A constantly evolving range of rental accommodation:

New rentalunits are offered - Every year, around 150 units are commissioned. In 2024, a number of new developments are expected, including 79 units in Terrot Town, 70 units in the Garden State development along the Avenue de Langres tramway line, and 25 units in the Charmette - Varennes - Maupassant residence. At the same time, the 30 homes in the Jacques Martinet residence in the new Arsenal district, to be delivered in early 2023, will feature shared roof gardens.

Eco-rehabilitation. GRAND DIJON HABITAT has been eco-rehabilitating its older properties for several years now. In the Fontaine d'Ouche district, the eco-rehabilitation of the Franche-Comté block continues. a total of 102 homes are now connected, benefiting from innovations such as heating data analysis. GRAND DIJON HABITAT wants to go even further by focusing on innovation and experimenting with collective self-consumption. By the end of 2024, an additional 1,000 homes will be eco-renovated at Fontaine d'Ouche. By 2027, 80% of GRAND DIJON HABITAT's pre-1980 housing stock will be eco-rehabilitated. For the time being, 83% of the landlord's stock has a label between A and D, compared with 68.6% nationally.

A European first. Together with Dijon Métropole, GRAND DIJON HABITAT has signed up for the prestigious European H2020 call for projects. In 2024, two buildings on the Franche-Comté block will benefit from solar panels, generating self-consumption for the entire block. The energy generated by this solar production will be re-injected into the common areas of the 6 buildings on the block, enabling tenants to save on charges. Work is starting on the Franche-Comté block, which will be testing out new connected services in the coming years. A total of 377 homes are potentially concerned by these innovations.

In addition, the public office is one of the 5 pilot landlords in France to experiment with the integration of digital architecture in an existing building. This will enable the deployment of solutions and services capable of facilitating homecare for the elderly and improving the residential tranquility of tenants. These major eco-rehabilitation projects will make a tangible improvement to the energy performance of GRAND DIJON HABITAT's portfolio, and at the same time reduce tenants' costs and boost their purchasing power.

Sale of older homes. Each year, as permitted by law, GRAND DIJON HABITAT offers around twenty housing units for sale. Priority is given to tenants, then after a few weeks to all interested parties, this scheme enables people to become homeowners and take a new step in their residential development. In Dijon, Chenôve and Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur, L'Office is selling selected residences from its portfolio at very attractive prices.

Sales of new housing via PSLA. GRAND DIJON HABITAT has launched a number of new home-ownership programs under the Prêt Social Location Accession (PSLA) scheme. For more information on programs currently on the market and eligibility conditions, visit the GRAND DIJON HABITAT website dedicated to the purchase of homes via the PSLA scheme: proprietairepourleprixdunloyer.com

A redesigned website. Since 2022, the virtual agency has been accessible from the new website, making daily life even easier for tenants, who can use it to report problems with their accommodation, pay their rent online, submit administrative documents, track their file in real time..

Charging and recharging terminals. GRAND DIJON HABITAT will be equipping itself with four charging stations for electric vehicles, which will release the surplus energy stored in the vehicles overnight before recharging them in the morning. Installed at GRAND DIJON HABITAT's head office, the charging stations will recharge the landlord's fleet of electric vehicles.

Just a 15-minute drive from the center of Dijon, Sennecey-lès-Dijon combines the advantages of the city with the charm of the countryside. Just a stone's throw from the fields, the commune boasts the essential services and facilities (health, schools, sports, etc.) to guarantee its residents a comfortable lifestyle. A medical center, a shopping center and new housing units are all contributing to the growth of the population. Between 2023 and 2024, around 150 homes will be built in the commune, and between 2025 and 2030, more than 120 homes will complete the project.

sennecey: "Towns and Villages where life is good". In 2023, Sennecey-lès-Dijon was ranked ^14th (out of 11,135 towns with 2,000 inhabitants), and first in Burgundy!

A new 440-home district, a new eco-responsible living space between town and country, with 3,000 inhabitants expected by 2030. The ZAC des Fontaines program, developed by Splaad, includes 40% multi-family housing, enabling young couples to enjoy a true residential experience in Sennecey. 57 of the expected housing units will be low-rent and 40 affordable housing units. By 2023, 70 new homes will have been delivered, after a number of multi-family units, including a Sérénitis seniors' residence, and around 20 single-family homes had already been built by Orvitis, Moyse and Esyom, and Nexity and Atik Résidences, which delivered 52 multi-family units in 2021, while almost 20 completed the project in 2022. In 2024, developer 2A Design will start construction of around 30 container homes, 90 to 110 m² in size on 250 to 400 m² lots, to offer an alternative to first-time buyers held back by inflation in the cost of materials.

Local shops at the foot of the building will complete the offer.

A sports field to create social links. Of the 14-hectare ZAC des Fontaines program, 5 hectares will remain planted. At the heart of the district, the Parc des Eaux, the Buttes playground, the conservatory orchard and the slide area provide meeting places, promenades and a reservoir of biodiversity.

A micro-creche will open in the neighborhood in 2024.

A bus line will link the district in 2025.

A student residence could also be built in Sennecey-lès-Dijon, as the commune is considering the project.

Carré de l'Habitat and Sopirim will also be building new residencesin other neighborhoods undergoing renewal, and the one to be built by Sopirim will be intergenerational. Carré de l'Habitat will build 17 homes.

Heritage renovation. Renovation of Saint-Maurice church, the third oldest church in Côte-d'Or, is scheduled for completion in 2023 (it will celebrate its thousandth anniversary in 2049), while that of the historic town hall building will be completed in 2024, along with the construction of a parking lot opposite.

Local shops. The commune boasts a supermarket, a small shopping mall with around ten shops and a number of retailers in the industrial zone.

The health center is very well equipped , with general practitioners, masseurs, physiotherapists, nurses and care assistants, speech therapists and phoniatrists, dentists and dental surgeons, and a pharmacy.

The Jardin des Maraîchers has enabled the redevelopment of Dijon's former abattoirs, a 20-hectare site developed by SPLAAD on a former industrial site. The result is the largest urban development project of its kind in the conurbation, with 1,500 homes and 28,000 m² of facilities, offices and shops in an emblematic eco-city built around a long, tree-lined central mall, shared between car and pedestrian. Collective housing, intermediary housing and single-family homes coexist. The district is connected to the urban heating network. Habellis, Grand Dijon Habitat, Villa Flore, Demathieu Bard, Sopirim, Icade, Voisin Immobilier and Kaufman & Broad have already delivered most of the programs. In the final phase of these developments, Océanis is building 264 housing units along the Boulevard de Chicago, including a student residence and a campus dedicated to sports and health. The Boulevard has begun its requalification, which will complete the metamorphosis of the Maraichers de Dijon.

The Junot district was one of the first eco-neighbourhoods to emerge from the ground in the Dijon conurbation on the 9.3 ha of the former barracks of the same name. Located north of Dijon, halfway between Place de la République and La Toison d'Or, served by line 2 of the tram, it has 600 housing units meeting environmental quality objectives, 180 of which are social rental units, as well as shops and local services, as shown by the HQE (Haute Qualité Environnementale) gymnasium. It is equipped with a crèche/halte nursery with 60 places, a meeting room for associations and a library.

Habellis is a social housing company (ESH) of the Action Logement group, managing nearly 19,000 housing units in the Yonne, Côte-d'Or, Saône-et-Loire and Nièvre regions. With sales of €104 million and a staff of 213, Habellis is a leading social housing operator in Burgundy. Habellis offers a wide range of quality properties for rent and for sale (through Aqisia, its dedicated home ownership brand), both multi-family and single-family, accessible to 70% of the population. The company's housing stock is constantly enriched by the development and construction of new programs, as well as the renovation of existing properties to enhance tenant comfort and reduce environmental impact. Habellis' objectives are to meet its customers' housing expectations, by accompanying them on a genuine residential journey.

Machureau in Dijon: a major development project involving the creation of 150 housing units! Habellis has taken on the role of developer and is responsible for the creation of a neighborhood offering a diversity of products, contributing to the housing mix called for by the Dijon Metropole Housing Plan. Habellis is the project manager for 105 housing units in a residence designed for affordable home ownership and social rental, built in apartment blocks as well as single-family homes. A parcel of land has been sold to a private developer for the construction of 45 freehold units. The 105 dwellings - 79 rentals (T1 to T5), 26 (T2 to T4) dedicated to home-ownership (a program eligible for the PSLA scheme to promote soft home-ownership) - are distributed across several buildings, and are designed according to sustainable development principles: landscaped pedestrian walkways, gardens and vegetation, limited automobile traffic. Private outdoor spaces, as well as communal landscaped areas, have been designed to encourage sharing and social interaction between future residents. The homes will be NF Habitat HQE-certified, enabling them to achieve RT 2012-10% energy performance; a high-quality place to live!

Matisse in Chenôve's Mail district: rehabilitation in a district of national interest, part of Dijon metropole's New Urban Renewal Program (NPNRU). Habellis' project was based on the master plan and major development guidelines for the district: requalification and residentialization of the built heritage, diversification of the housing offer and requalification of public spaces. Conducted in consultation with Habellis, the town of Chenôve and all project partners, the project involves the renovation of 40 housing units (T1 to T5), the demolition of 30 units and the landscaping of the newly created spaces. With the aim of de-densifying the neighborhood and making it more attractive, the project involves creating two breakthroughs on three entrances (7 entrances in all) that make up the Matisse building on rue Françoise Dolto. The deconstruction of certain entrances will provide more breathing space and visual perspective in the urban fabric. This massive, linear aspect will be mitigated by freeing up a central space to create green areas conducive to biodiversity and to restore connections between the various spaces that make up the neighborhood. These far-reaching changes will not only enhance the quality of life and comfort of our customers, but also renew the image of the residence to maintain the appeal of the park. Habellis will also be refurbishing buildings^no. 1/3/9 and 11, with the aim of achieving "BBC Performance" certification.

The PSLA scheme enables households on a certain income to own their own home.

In 2023, the ceiling was €26,921 per year for a single-person household and €50,489 for a family of 5 or more.

The rent-to-own scheme offers a number of advantages:

households can remain tenants for a period of time freely defined by the parties ;

the sale price is regulated by the government and benefits from reduced VAT;

the property is exempt from property tax (taxe foncière sur les propriétés bâties - TFPB) for the first fifteen years;

monthly payments must not exceed the amount of the last rent paid during the rental phase;

Re-housing guarantee (means-tested). If the purchase option is not exercised, the HLM operator must propose at least three alternative housing solutions by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt within six months. The occupant has one month to respond. Failing agreement, the occupant must leave the premises. Conversely, if one of the rehousing proposals is accepted, the occupant continues to pay an occupancy indemnity equal to the rent less the amount earmarked for the acquisition, while waiting to move.

Buy-back guarantee. Once an owner, the occupant can resell the property at any time. If necessary, they can repay their loan early without incurring early repayment penalties.
To protect occupants in the event of need, the PSLA mechanism includes a buy-back guarantee that runs for 15 years after the option is exercised, until the loan is repaid. This guarantee must be activated at the borrower's request within one year following a transfer, divorce, unemployment, death or disability.

PSLA purchases can be made from operators and housing cooperatives belonging to the HLM movement that have been granted the corresponding approvals.The Dijon metropolitan area has thus approved 200 housing units for 2023 within the real estate programs of 4 partner developers and landlords: Aqisia by Habellis, Odifis by Orvitis, CDC Habitat and Ghitti, a private developer.

Action Logement also assists employees in this process, and offers a loan for home ownership when the option is exercised, subject to certain conditions. For further information, visit actionlogement.fr

Full information can be obtained from the ADIL (Agence Départementale d'Information sur le Logement). Information ADIL ✆ 03 80 66 28 88, or Dijon Métropole housing department ✆ 03 80 50 35 30 and on www.metropole-dijon.fr/Services-et-missions/Habitat/Location-accession

The Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture has a social residence and a Foyer de Jeunes Travailleurs. 76 apartments in the Résidence Escoffier and 5 apartments in the Laurier district provide access to housing. Students, young workers, mobility or professional integration, single-parent families, disabled people... occupy furnished apartments at modest rents (from 260 to 520 euros). The MJC guides tenants in budgeting, health monitoring, social and professional integration, etc. 68 additional places have been added, and a low-energy building has been built in place of the current Providence home.

BFC Promotion Habitat (a home ownership cooperative formed in 2017 from the merger of Bourgogne Habitat, Le Toit Bourguignon and the redeployment to Franche-Comté of BFC COOP IMMO, whose destiny is linked to the Dijon cooperative) builds new homes for affordable home ownership through a range of formulas, including the sale of properties with price and income ceilings and 5.5% VAT, and qualifying for zero-rate loans or the PSLA (Location Accession) scheme.

The range also extends to building plots in the Côte-d'Or and Saône-et-Loire regions, with the company also acting as a land developer.

BFC Promotion Habitat's reach extends beyond metropolitan France to the entire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Thanks to new partnerships, the cooperative produces around 150 new homes a year.

Current programs are located in Dijon, Perrigny-lès-Dijon, Marcilly-sur-Tille, Fontaine-Française, Montagny-lès-Beaune and as far as Tournus. Come and visit us at 45 avenue du Drapeau to find out more about these affordable home-ownership offers, the diversity of which means you can choose according to your tastes and means to realize your real estate project.