About fifteen tenants of the Séverac tower and surrounding buildings moved in front of the Sarcelles municipal council on Tuesday evening to protest against their housing conditions, supported by Daniel Cahorel, Federal Councilor of the National Housing Confederation for the East. of 95. According to them, the heating does not work properly. Eight hundred inhabitants would be affected.
Beyond the heating problem, they also point to “insulation and humidity problems” in aging buildings. “The lessor tells us it’s 19°C but that’s not true. We have readings at 14, 15 or 16°C. My slab is very cold when we are supposed to have underfloor heating, ”alarms Mohamed, thermometer in support.
According to Val-d’Oise Habitat, on the contrary, the collective heating was indeed “put back into service on October 11 and there is no malfunction”. The social landlord only recognizes “irregularities to stabilize temperatures”. He recalls that “the heating threshold is set at a maximum of 19°C for all the rooms in a dwelling, according to article R241-26 of the energy code. For fifteen days, we have posed probes in connection with the friendly to make sure of this point ”.
Rehabilitation work in 2026
“We were told that, if we were chilly, we only had to put on a wool or take an extra heater”, complain the tenants, who were already received on December 1 by Val-d’Oise Habitat . They believe that “the Camille Saint-Saëns district is abandoned, it is the most rotten of Sarcelles”. A new meeting is scheduled for next week with the lessor in order to “take stock of the installation of the probes, the temperature readings and future work”.
As part of the new national urban renewal program (Anru), Val-d’Oise Habitat had proposed in 2018 to register work to be carried out for 2,775 housing units on its Sarcelles heritage, including the Séverac residence. “The scope of intervention will ultimately be concentrated on part of the northern sector of Sarcelles. As a result, the rehabilitation of the Séverac tower has been included in our multi-year program and is scheduled for 2026”, indicates the lessor.
But Nadia, mother of three, can’t take it anymore. “We are dying of cold, we are not going to wait until 2026! My son has become asthmatic and my three children have repeated bronchitis. I don’t even dare bring my parents, it’s so cold here in winter. In addition to paying our expenses for a collective heating which does not heat anything at all, we will have to pay EDF for the auxiliary heating. Instead of buying them toys at Christmas, we’re going to pay the bills! »
“Camille Saint-Saëns has not been the subject of investment for a long time”
The inhabitants will be received by Patrick Haddad, the mayor (PS), next Monday. “Obviously the technical explanations of the lessor do not correspond to the feelings of the inhabitants. Anru would have brought a plus, but that does not exonerate the lessor from its obligations, that is to say guarantee minimum conditions of well-being and good living on a daily basis”, indicates his cabinet, aware that “Camille Saint-Saëns was not the object of investments for a very long time”.
To improve the situation, “additional purge requests were made to the CIEC operator. Insulation work will be carried out at the beginning of 2022. It consists of maintaining and isolating the heat in the pipes and pipes to prevent heat loss,” explains Val-d’Oise Habitat.
Another concern of the tenants, the presence of a “threatening” individual, under an Obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), who squats the common areas of the Séverac Tower. Several complaints have been filed with the police station in recent weeks and state services have been notified.
The inhabitants obtained the presence of a guard until one o’clock in the morning. According to the lessor, since the implementation of this exceptional guarding, “the individual no longer occupies the common areas. The tenants and the services of the city are delighted with this return to normal. But the tenants claim that the man continues to “ring the doorbell when the security guard has left, urinating, threatening the women, etc. “.
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