Last May, the National Housing Agency (Anah) proposed exploring the idea of encouraging households to self-rehabilitate. The organization that manages MaPrimeRénov’ (MPR) even considered including this type of public in the scope of financial assistance. It is now the Ministry of Housing, on October 3, 2023, which has just expressed its marked interest in this form of renovation. “The Government considers it relevant to focus on the phenomenon of self-renovation, and in particular that of accompanied self-renovation (ARA), corresponding to renovations carried out by the owner himself, accompanied and advised by a professional of the building”, can we read in a written ministerial response, following a request on the subject from MP LR Marie-Christine Dalloz.
The State is considering the creation of financial aid
Indeed, for public authorities, this technique has the potential to respond to numerous obstacles encountered in the field: “control of the quality of work, safety of non-professionals, integration of local craftsmen, etc.” This could also increase the number of energy renovation projects tenfold by mobilizing a new population on the subject. The ministry, however, closes the door to these individuals benefiting from MPR, as envisaged by Anah, for the simple reason that this financial assistance is conditional on obtaining the RGE label. But the door is open to another type of public financial support, specifies the ministry.
The State also indicates that an experiment had been carried out by Anah with the association of companion builders, which is currently being analyzed. Objective: to find “means” to “remove current obstacles to the development of supported self-rehabilitation”. This practice is relatively widespread today. According to the 2020 Tremi survey, cited by the ministry, 29% of energy renovation work carried out between 2017 and 2019 involved self-renovation. Furthermore, according to Ademe, the years of health crisis have “strongly accelerated” this practice, which has resulted in an increase in sales of materials in DIY stores. A dynamic on which the State therefore plans to surf, given the hundreds of thousands of efficient renovations that will need to be carried out in the years to come.
#State #plans #encourage #selfrenovation #households
