François Ruffin
Housing and planning
75 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 6 · Campaign proposal or statement : 69
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Develop a new five-year plan with associations and professionals making lasting housing an unconditional right and a prerequisite for reintegration.
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Strengthen funding, governance and visibility of social residences serving low-paid workers, young adults and disabled people, among others.
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Provide specific measures against unfit housing in overseas territories, particularly French Guiana and Mayotte; detailed measures remain undefined.
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Prioritise reusing buildings, brownfields, urban renewal and locally appropriate density to preserve land and reduce very-low-density development.
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More tightly regulate retail, logistics, data-centre and other business siting and reconsider large infrastructure projects with substantial land footprints deemed unjustified.
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In her conclusion, Sophie Taillé-Polian announces ending highly energy-inefficient housing by 2032 through public investment and support for tenants and small owners.
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Impose an additional housing contribution on businesses employing essential workers and extensively using atypical schedules.
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Remove the stated ten-employee eligibility threshold so essential workers can access employer-funded housing services.
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Prioritise essential workers for benefits and schemes financed through employer housing contributions.
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Gradually raise comprehensive home renovations to 800,000 annually, averaging 600,000 per year over the five-year term, combining insulation and low-carbon heating.
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Quadruple public renovation funding and reach fifteen billion euros annually for housing; the cahier does not state a numerical annual comparison baseline here.
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Replace energy-saving certificates with a direct contribution to Anah, making it the sole subsidy source and simplifying procedures.
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Make subsidy scales more progressive and extend enhanced subsidies, advance payments and free guidance to middle-income households.
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Guarantee access to zero-interest eco-loans for everyone through a public financing option for remaining renovation costs.
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Support about 400,000 individual renovation interventions annually, including heating in already-insulated homes, solar shading and air circulators; include the latter in MaPrimeRénov’.
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Expand home adaptations for independent living and disability, alongside comprehensive renovations or separately in already-insulated homes; no new numerical target is set.
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Plan and finance renovation of public buildings, hospitals and universities, with engineering support even for small local authorities and an ecological-reconstruction grant.
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Provide free shading, shutters, reflective surfaces or fans for the most vulnerable people, led by municipalities and social landlords; simplify heritage rules and fund durable materials.
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Air-condition public premises serving vulnerable people, including schools, hospitals and care homes.
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Strengthen guidance independent of contractors, proactive outreach and supported self-renovation, particularly for vulnerable households, to limit fraud and excessive quotes.
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Include excessive heat in energy-poverty definitions and provide overheating indicators for existing non-residential buildings.
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Extend rent regulation nationwide using local median rents by neighbourhood and dwelling type plus 20%, with intermunicipal observatories and enforcement.
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Regulate rent supplements; if an exception remains for constitutional reasons, restrict it to homes rated C or better with external shading and an air circulator, capped at 20% above the already-increased rent ceiling.
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Double available zero-interest home-purchase loan amounts for low- and middle-income buyers; the rise of an average loan from 60,000 to 120,000 euros is illustrative, not a guaranteed amount for each borrower.
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Extend the doubling to existing zero-interest-loan beneficiaries, particularly those affected by interest-rate increases since 2022.
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After a bank refusal solely because of insecure employment contracts, offer a reduced-rate public loan to households showing sufficient regular income over the previous forty-eight months, alongside the zero-interest loan; the Livret A rate is only an example.
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Expand community land trusts and social real leases while retaining low- and middle-income targeting with suitable income ceilings.
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Strengthen public land agencies, substantially increase their resources and extend nationwide coverage to control land prices.
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Allow intermunicipal authorities to set quotas beyond which sold homes must become principal residences, periodically decided by elected representatives and citizens; exclude inherited second homes.
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Apply ordinary rental obligations to tourist rentals, including restrictions on energy-inefficient homes.
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Guarantee baseline housing-enforcement staffing everywhere according to need, with training and health-agency support; 75% state funding is proposed as an example.
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Set housing-law penalties at no less than twice the identified illegal gains.
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Provide intermunicipal authorities with a general register of housing uses and rents, drawing especially on tax-administration declarations.
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Fund local authorities or their operators to renovate degraded occupied or empty homes and then rent or sell them affordably.
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Make compulsory works more systematic when owners fail to perform ordered urgent repairs, extend the mechanism to heat risks and recover costs.
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Repeal the Kasbarian-Bergé law and restore funded eviction prevention.
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Open eight thousand additional emergency-accommodation places annually in high-pressure areas.
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Accelerate conversion of emergency accommodation into supported housing while ensuring lasting provision for the emergency-accommodation sector.
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Coordinate the plan with child welfare and services for asylum applicants and rejected applicants to prevent breaks in support.
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Restart construction of very-low-rent and adapted social housing and introduce a minimum allocation to homeless people or emergency-accommodation residents; the threshold is not quantified.
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Produce two hundred thousand regulated-rent public homes annually, or one million over five years, including youth and senior housing within that total.
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Create two hundred thousand youth housing places by 2032: one hundred fifty thousand for students, including seventy-five thousand additional to AGiLE, and fifty thousand for young workers; prioritise high-pressure metropolitan areas, sharing and proximity to transport and education.
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Allocate eight to twelve billion additional euros over five years to the youth plan, mobilise public and university land and brownfields, standardise and build offsite, with public indicators and independent evaluation.
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Create twenty-five thousand annual places in independent-living residences or inclusive and shared homes for seniors with mild loss of autonomy, managed by the social economy and eligible for adapted shared-living support.
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Refocus care homes on severe dependency categories GIR 1 and 2 and open additional adapted places in high-pressure areas.
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Increase home-adaptation funding and proactive outreach to older residents.
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Double public support for social landlords to expand production and renovate stock, quickly restoring pre-2018 resources through two to three billion additional euros annually followed by gradual increases.
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Extend the housing expansion to overseas departments, particularly French Guiana, alongside mainland France.
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The scenario projects, in addition to public housing, one hundred fifty thousand home purchases and fifty thousand vacant or occasional homes returned to long-term rental annually; these are expected outcomes of proposed instruments.
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The overall scenario describes roughly five hundred thousand new annual housing units, including at least one hundred thousand returned to use and one hundred fifty thousand built on brownfields; these subsets must not be added to the total as separate promises.
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Legally define shared housing and then finance affordable provision through social landlords and direct support to relevant groups.
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Develop local planning and architectural expertise, especially in rural and suburban areas, with supported self-development and reduced land burden from compulsory parking.
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Replace energy-saving certificates with energy-supplier contributions to Anah, providing one subsidy, one scale and free guidance.
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Raise renovation funding to fifteen billion euros annually and support roughly six hundred thousand comprehensive renovations plus four hundred thousand targeted interventions per year; these categories form the stated million, not one million comprehensive renovations.
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Expand disability and independent-living adaptations alongside comprehensive renovations or separately in already-insulated homes.
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Extend advance subsidies to middle-income households and guarantee zero-interest eco-loans for remaining costs, with a public option following bank refusal.
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Strengthen proactive outreach, systematic support by an operator independent of contractors and supervised self-renovation.
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Prioritise energy-poor households for insulation and reversible heat pumps and accelerate urban heating and cooling networks.
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Install shading and temperature-control equipment, including air conditioning where necessary, free for the most vulnerable; simplify heritage rules and make shading and air circulators eligible for individual MaPrimeRénov’ interventions.
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Make renovation of degraded empty homes cheaper than new construction, gradually target sixty thousand then eighty thousand rehabilitations annually and allocate about 15% of the fifteen-billion-euro plan.
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Accelerate local-authority purchases of abandoned homes, particularly those without heirs, with staff able to inspect and trace owners.
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Facilitate and accelerate compensated expropriation of degraded empty homes when owners refuse an agreed sale or renovation; the cahier generally regards vacancy beyond two years as excessive without fixing a uniform legal deadline here.
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Have the state cover 100% of additional brownfield-reuse costs; the cahier estimates roughly one billion euros annually and envisages meeting at least two thirds of industrial land needs on brownfields.
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Reserve regulated housing in high-pressure areas for newly appointed permanent teachers and provide direct settling-in assistance.
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Prohibit using agricultural or natural land for data centres where a suitable brownfield exists and require independent verification that no alternative exists.
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Maintain local public inventories of connectable brownfields and require a public review of earlier promises before reallocating unused expropriated land.
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Start three million comprehensive renovations over five years, averaging six hundred thousand annually, with an indicated ramp from two hundred ten thousand in year one to three hundred thousand in year two and a peak of eight hundred thousand in 2032.
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Add at least two million targeted interventions over five years, including four hundred thousand in year one, for heating in insulated homes and heat protection.
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Replace energy-saving certificates with a six-billion-euro annual direct Anah contribution and raise total support to fifteen billion; estimated three-billion bill savings could reduce electricity taxation.
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Provide a public zero-interest renovation loan following bank refusal and extend free independent guidance and advance subsidies to middle-income households.
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Fund shutters, blinds, air circulators and air conditioning where vulnerability requires it, simplifying heritage rules and supporting durable materials.
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Use an average five-thousand-euro subsidy per home in the targeted-intervention costing; this is a modelling average, not an announced universal flat payment.
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Urgently support shading, ventilation and, where necessary, roof insulation and reversible air conditioning in the most heat-exposed public buildings, prioritising schools, hospitals and care homes.
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Target schools closed during the heatwave and uncooled public or nonprofit care-home rooms in the emergency scenario; propose a 40% subsidy over two years, roughly six hundred million annually in 2027–2028, subject to an assessment still to be completed.
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Provide an average 40% subsidy for local and medical-social energy renovations and expand work on state buildings; the funding path remains a progressive scenario requiring clarification.
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