The “national priority” is “a natural and just right”, affirmed Marine Le Pen in her back-to-school speech, promising to apply this controversial principle to social housing, while housing will be “one of the major projects” of her five-year term.
“We will guarantee to all French people, as is practiced in all countries in the world, a natural and just right. With us the French, whatever their skin color or their religion, their origin or their residence (…) will have priority at home,” explained the presidential candidate, in her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais).
She promised that housing would be “one of the major projects” of her five-year term, and wanted to “give priority access to social housing to the French” as well as “reserve” personal housing assistance (APL) for them.
“Expulsion of delinquent families”
The leader of the National Rally also intends to “repeal” the SRU (Solidarity and Urban Renewal) law which requires mayors to reserve part of their real estate for social housing, and allow the sale of “a certain number of HLMs to the French”, while carrying out the “expulsion of delinquent families” from this social housing.
“There is nothing, my dear friends, happier than the feeling of expressing harmony in one’s home by being able to say I am at home,” argued the far-right candidate, promoting individual property.
Through this housing policy aimed at “liberating construction, enhancing the existing stock, encouraging and protecting property”, public land “will be made available free of charge to builders” who will “in return” have to build “thousands of apartments” at low rent.
Marine Le Pen also intends to remove “zero net artificialization” (ZAN), an “ideological standard” in her eyes, and to “stop (the) absurd policy” of energy performance diagnostics (DPE) of housing which determine their value.
She reiterated that she wanted to replace Ma Prime Renov› with a “100% renovation” system consisting of “a zero-interest loan” for renovation work, and to launch a “vast policy of transforming vacant offices into housing”.
“This presidential election will decide everything, whether to let our country get bogged down in the shifting sands of habits and turpitudes, or the start, the one we want and which will lead to the rebirth of France,” she argued.
Adding that the “renaissance” that she calls for will “not only be political and economic” but “will transform our way of living, living and looking at our country”.
