in Rouen, developers warn of a housing shortage
Would the vision of the forest of cranes which bars the sky of Rouen be deceptive? To this question, the Federation of real estate developers of Normandy (FPI) answers in the affirmative. To listen to its representatives, the stock of new housing tends on the contrary to reduce the skin of grief in the seventy-one municipalities that make up the Rouen metropolis (500,000 inhabitants). With the corollary of a rise in prices per square meter already patented in certain districts of the hyper center where they are breaking their ceilings – although remaining far below those of other large cities in the West such as Rennes.
” Everything that is being built right now has already been sold, assures Christophe Demoulliez, president of the FPI. In fact, we have less than nine months of offers for apartments and less than six months for building land.. In other words, almost nothing “.
The Federation, which has just carried out a very documented study (a block of 160 pages) on the housing needs of the administrative capital of Normandy, is formal. If the agglomeration wants to welcome new residents and stem the departure of families to nearby municipalities better equipped with individual houses, it will be necessary to resolve to build a third of housing per one, rehabilitation includes. ” Current production just meets structural needs », Analyzes Guillaume Basile, president of the Observatory of new housing in Normandy.
More students, seniors … and Parisians
Although the developers deny themselves wanting to dictate their conduct to elected officials, their study has encountered several phenomena which plead in favor of a more proactive housing policy. Some are known. Like all large agglomerations, Rouen is facing a growth in the decohabitation of households coupled with an increase in the elderly population (+ 10% over 75 years and ten years) which generates new needs.
More singular, it is experiencing an influx of new students – of the order of 850 per year – who must be accommodated. ” This number is one of the big surprises of the study », Comments Guillaume Basile. Finally, the metropolis, the backyard of Greater Paris, seems to be gaining credit with Ile-de-France residents in search of elsewhere who have represented “ more than 15% of buyers in the old Last year, the dixit notaries. Here again, the offer may not be enough, warns Christophe Demoulliez. ” If the Parisians arrive in droves, the market will not follow “.
Faced with this situation, which it describes as a trend, the FPI recommends that the executive of the Metropolis create more favorable conditions for the production of housing ” especially affordable »: Establishment of real solidarity leases or even a solidarity land office, absorption and accumulation of vacancies, creation of a housing house, development of residences for single people (students, young workers, seniors). ..
Its representatives are also surprised at the small number of developed areas. Clearly, public land made safe for the benefit of housing.
” Due to the development of developed sectors and the assistance put in place for low-income households, the urban community of Caen-la-mer, almost half the size, builds as many housing units as the metropolis of Rouen. They argue.
An argument that could hit the bull’s eye as the old rivalry between the two main Norman agglomerations has endured.