Travel: The President, Daniel Gibbs speaks at the USHOM conference on the challenges of ultra-marine social housing

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After his meeting on Monday, September 27 in the morning with the Cabinet of the Minister of Solidarity and Health, Olivier Véran, the president, Daniel Gibbs was invited in the afternoon to speak at the conference of the Social Union for the Habitat Outre-mer (USHOM) which was held at the Luxembourg Palace (Senate). 

The President thus exposed the reality of the challenges which the territory of Saint-Martin has been facing for several years. The evolution of social housing is indeed at the center of economic issues and climate change. The objective, for our Collectivity, is to develop a social housing stock that is dignified, secure, better integrated, better adapted to its environment, and which is also a vector of economic development. The Collectivity of Saint-Martin is fully committed to a proactive approach, in particular through the forthcoming development of a Local Housing Program (PLH). This program will be part of the discussions that will be initiated with the National Agency for Urban Renovation (ANRU), the National Housing Agency (ANAH) and Action Logement: agreements will be negotiated, in the next months, with these organizations.  

During his speech, President Gibbs recalled the challenges facing the Collectivity of Saint-Martin with regard to the many skills acquired since 2007. He also mentioned the inconsistencies that arose during the transfer of powers by the State, in particular that of housing in 2012: “Not prepared in 2011-2012, this massive transfer creates legal situations that are complex to say the least. For almost ten years, that is to say from April 1, 2012, the State can neither take a new text, nor repeal a text in the field of competence of housing as it applies to Saint-Martin. The applicable law is therefore a fixed law ”. 

The President indicated that he was fully aware of these shortcomings and recalled the total absence of compensation, by the State, in 2012, for the transfer of Housing / Housing / Construction competence, resulting, for the finances of the COM, to win around fifteen million euros for ten years. 

In this unprecedented context, Daniel Gibbs recalled the scale of the task to be accomplished because it is necessary, at the same time, to “assume the past following a massive and botched transfer of skills with consequences long underestimated; manage the present without statistical tools on which to rely; and prepare the future of the territory in cooperation, planning and projection ”. With the upcoming development of its PLH, the COM will therefore now fully appropriate the “Housing” competence at its disposal.

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