The Brussels regional government arrangements for summer 2009 are ambitious. They provide, by 2019, a dramatic increase in the number of public housing by a standard to achieve in the next 10 years 15% of quality housing in public management and social purpose . It seems that the current percentage of public housing is 10% but the exact numbers are unknown. Specifically, to meet the standard, about 25,000 public housing should be created in two legislatures (20 to 35,000 housing units estimated). It is therefore at least 200 units per month.
is an extremely proactive as tens of thousands of people waiting impatiently in a city where it can live where housing is provided, but where the housing gobbles up the majority of the budget of the poor.
Eleven months after the regional elections and ten months after the creation of new government, the concrete signs incite pessimism regardless of the willingness of each other. The concern shown and theoretically laudable prior consultation cache less and less painful lack of concrete progress. The objective
new concerns not only the construction of dwellings ab nihilo, but also the transformation of offices and property abandoned housing and the continued construction already initiated. And agreements concerning constructions and transformations the short, medium and long term , that is, logically, long term of 10 years, with a few short years and a few months.
For long-term objectives of a few months, we can already say the near certainty of failure . In fact, I usqu'ici, nothing concrete has been announced in these areas. While in cons, time has to abandon a project of the previous Parliament and reviewing other projects down.
If the government's objective was met, he would build, renovate and remodel. Manufactured housing costs on average at least 300,000 € all inclusive (land, construction, ...). Renovation or conversion, perfectly efficient and effective, could cost around € 50,000 per house included. The minimum conceivable average per home produced can be estimated at 100,000 € per unit concerned. In this sense, as virtually no accommodation is still created, regional and local authorities currently save at least 20 million € per month.
addition, these savings at the expense of the poor, we must remember that private owners are not too slow. The city grew from about 3,000 flights or very expensive homes per year, well knew, just like when you add water to salt water already less sweet, the solution is more brackish at least for those who care about those who can not afford nice new homes.
This letter bimonthly aims to be a spur to help achieve even partial goals.
State of the realization of the 25,000 homes in 3600 days (known to 10 May 2010):
- number of public housing new built : 58
- number of public housing created from offices processed : 0
- number of public housing created from homes and other buildings abandoned: 0
- number of public housing created by other means (purchase, rental ,...): 0
- ( -) Deletions of public housing (acquisition by tenants, destruction ,...): 0
- Total new public housing actually created: 58
- Time : 10 months since the political agreements (11 months since the beginning of the legislature)
- time remaining to complete the provision of housing: 109 months
- Total number of public housing which should in principle be created during the time (based on 200 units per month): 2,200
- Minimum total saved by regional or local authorities in Brussels at the expense of those who occupy the dwellings: € 215,000,000
Additional Information :
- A site http://www.planlogement.be was conducted by the State Secretariat in Brussels for Housing and Planning of the previous Parliament. Only the home page of the site is still accessible, but the content was removed. few months ago it seems that a new site must be carried forward by the administration, but this seems almost as complicated to build social housing in a real bricks.- The text of the Agreement on Government's 2009-2014 July 12, 2009 is available on page
http://www.parlbruparl.irisnet.be/images/imgparl/accords2009/accordsfr.pdf .
- According to the newsletter of the Public Service Social Integration: The shortage of housing meant that social housing companies perform a more selective rent their homes and, because high rents in private rental, social rental offices are forced to seek higher prices for their sublease. Source http://www.mi-is.be , May 7, 2010.
If I call the relevant information, they will be released in the next letter.
Didier Coeurnelle, councilor at Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
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