Marine Le Pen places housing at the heart of her presidential project

“Housing is a major subject for you, and therefore a major subject for me.” Marine Le Pen got to the heart of the matter of her presidential campaign, Sunday September 13, in the afternoon, after a weekend of work behind closed doors with the parliamentarians of her party in Le Touquet. The National Rally (RN) candidate focused her speech, delivered in her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), for a little less than an hour, around the theme of housing and access to property.

From the start of her speech, Marine Le Pen announced that housing would be "at the heart" of her "presidential project", "one of the major projects" of her five-year term, if she is elected President of the Republic. “I want the housing situation in France, which is so tense today, to return to normal in five years,” she promised. His project will be based on “three pillars”: “Free construction, enhance the existing park, encourage and protect property.” “We will launch a vast policy of transforming offices into housing,” she proposed.

“We will open this major national project, it will be good for each of you and it will be good for the economy which will benefit from this tremendous boost,” assured Marine Le Pen. “Let's drop the standards when they are not essential, let's reduce the lengthening delays, let's simplify the discouraging procedures,” called the RN candidate, who notably spoke out in favor of the removal of the ZAN, the “zero net artificialization” system.

Marine Le Pen also announced that she wanted to remove “constraints based on the DPE”, the Energy Performance Diagnosis, “which will remain a simple indicative element”. She also wants to set up a new system, 100% Renov, "a zero-interest loan to allow all households who wish to carry out renovation work, electrify their heating or, no matter how many people may think, install air conditioning".

Faithful to the values ​​of her party, Marine Le Pen also highlighted the “national priority” in terms of housing: “We must give priority to access to social housing for the French and reserve for them the benefit of APL, personal housing assistance.” “Similarly, priority access to student housing must be established for young French people,” she added.

The RN leader also proposed repealing the law relating to solidarity and urban renewal of December 13, 2000, known as the "SRU law", which since 2000 has required certain municipalities to have a minimum number of social housing. “More broadly, the sale of a certain number of HLMs to the French will thus make it possible to free up resources to finance new constructions”, which, according to her, will make it possible to organize “the expulsion of delinquent families from HLMs”, thus alluding to the “deterioration” of social housing. These families will no longer be able to access social housing for three years according to his proposal.

“Our ambition is to move towards a society of owners.”

The candidate again promised to work on purchasing power, but also to make it easier to obtain loans and to “make the portability of real estate loans previously taken out with more favorable rates obligatory”. “We want a society that respects property,” continued Marine Le Pen, wanting to fight against squats by passing a law “as soon as she is elected.” At the end of her speech, she arranged to meet on October 25 in Orléans (Loiret), for the RN Congress.