“Building stakeholders are essential”, V.Mancret-Taylor (Anah)
The National Housing Agency (Anah), in charge of managing MaPrimeRénov’, is more than ever in the spotlight. While the energy renovation sector is taking more and more space in the national strategy for sobriety and decarbonization, the agency’s managing director, Valérie Mancret-Taylor, answers Batiactu’s questions on all of the topics that make the news in this field: from MaPrimeRénov’ objectives in terms of global renovation, to the role of craftsmen and contractors in the construction industry, through the entry into force of the rénov’ guide and the existing balance between public and private actors. “We are all concerned by the success of this public policy”she assures.
Batiactu: How is Anah’s business doing at the start of 2023?
Valerie Mancret-Taylor: Anah is doing well! We are at the heart of a very profound change in land use planning and housing policies. These developments are due to the fact that France is a highly developed country. And she is, in my opinion, the president of the national council of the Order of architects (NOAC), Christine Leconte, who speaks about it the best: our subject, at present, is less that of fitting out, than of sparing what already exists. Intervention on the existing therefore takes more and more place in the philosophy of public policies. However, the Anah, which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2021, has always been able to meet societal expectations to transform the private fleet. Of course, a form of priority is currently given to energy renovation; but we also work on other subjects, such as aging or poor housing.
In which national programs is Anah involved, in addition to MaPrimeRénov’ (MPR)?
We intervene within the framework of Action heart of the city, Small towns of tomorrow and Housing first. We are also piloting the Initiatives Plan condominiums. As a reminder, it is based on three fundamentals: prevention, which is all the more important today as we are experiencing an increase in the cost of condo fees ; recovery, which targets very fragile properties or those in a state of advanced degradation; and finally transformation, which mainly concerns large housing estates or old centres. Our work, in this case, consists in carrying out, in partnership with the ANRU, diagnoses making it possible to distinguish the buildings which must continue to exist from those which deserve to be demolished in whole or in part.
“We must therefore raise the knowledge of these condominiums and the skills of the trustees”
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