“We will have to build social housing”: “Montpellier was there” for the 84th HLM Congress

Mayor Michaël Delafosse and Minister Valérie Letard (at the microphone). D. R.

After three days of congress, the construction sector remains in crisis but the milestones have been set to relaunch programs. To do this, we will need to count on the support of local elected officials and the State. 

The three days of the HLM Congress at the Parc des Expositions ended on a note of optimism.

Despite a level of social housing construction rarely so low and a historically high demand for access, the 20,000 participants left with the hope of a restart: “Because it is a question of solidarity to support purchasing power. We must produce social housing to ensure a dignified life. Far from the territorial selfishness that harms national solidarity”, thundered the mayor of Montpellier Michaël Delafosse at the opening of the Congress. Who had added scathingly: “Separatisms also exist in social matters”.

Delafosse “a visionary mayor”, according to the Minister of Housing

A speech fueled by an essential desire to build, widely applauded by the room. And appreciated in hindsight by Valérie Létard, the Minister of Housing and Urban Renewal who assured that “Montpellier was there”, praising “a builder mayor, a planning and visionary mayor”.

A newly appointed minister who wanted to “listen, identify priorities, in order to make choices tomorrow, because they will have to be made. There is such an expectation from the French and the Housing sector. Believe me I will fight, I am by your side…" All that remains is to take action…