Case Study: Energy Performance Diagnosis of the Existing Housing Stock in Midi Pyrénées Region
Name of organisation: L'Union Sociale pour l'Habitat Midi Pyrénées
Stage of development: in progress
Year of finalization: 0
Type of project: other type
Scale: national
Street: 104, Avenue Jean Rieux
Postcode: 31500
City: Toulouse
Region/ County: Midi-Pyrénées
Country: France
Last Update: 31.01.2011
Short Description
In may 2009, in the context of the revision procedure of the Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation, the European Union allowed to use 4% of the national ERDF amounts to improve energy efficiency in social housing.
In France, this has been integrated to the objectives of the social housing organisations and to the commitments they had made in the context of the French Grenelle plan.
The budget of 320 millions euros allocated to energy performance and sustainable energy in social housing enable the organisations to implement projects that are exemplary and repeatable.
In France, projects that are supported by ERDF must:
- focus on dwellings that are the most consuming energy
- being exemplary and having a knock on effect
- concern a lot of dwellings
ERDF is a complement to other fundings:
- the eco-loan of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
- subsidies from public national agencies (ADEME, ANRU)
- subsidies from local collectivities
The implementation in France has good results thanks to a strong mobilisation. At the European level, an active lobbying has been developed to the European Institutions. At the national level, the French Federation USH has worked with the French Administration on the conditions of implementation of the ERDF measure in regions. At least, the French regional associations for social housing have worked with their partners on the identification of the needs in local stocks, the definition of eligibility criterion, a strategy of intervention on the stock and a support to local organisations.
At the local level, the Regional Associations for social housing were mobilised to enable this implementation et to help the SHO developing new projects. They lead different types of actions:
- Identifications of needs.
- Implementation of the partnership:
- Support to project managers.
- Financial engineering:
- Funding and monitoring of projects:
The study on the distinctive features of housing stock in Midi Pyrénées Region corresponds to the first kind of actions: Identification of needs. Each territory has a housing stock with strong peculiarities, and it is important to have a precise knowledge of the stock. Regional associations of Midi Pyrénées worked on a diagnosis shared by local partners, to ensure consistency between financial arrangements. They also worked on the performance criteria of the projects supported by the ERDF. Thus, it is very important that the ERDF is in line with the various territorial issues.
Key Elements
Main Results
In France, 79% of the amounts dedicated to social housing are allocated or in procedure. 7 regions have already programmed all their funds, and projects that are waiting for financing represent 17% of these amounts.
As established in the badget, 40 222 social dwellings have been supported by ERDF.
The amount for Midi-Pyrénées Region is divided as follow (million Euro):
Regional ERDF amount:430
4% of the ERDF funds for Housing: 17,2
Allocated amounts: 30,0 (Global budget)
Lessons learned
In France, the mobilisation to implement the ERDF measure should have strong effects on energy performances of the retrofitted housing stock.
Additional Information
For any information please contact:
S. Veniel La Navennec
AR HLM Midi-Pyrénées
ushmp@union-habitat.org
Website: http://www.habitat-midipyrenees.org/


