Marine Le Pen has pledged to place the principle of "national priority" at the heart of her housing policy as she opened her 2027 presidential campaign, calling it a "natural and just right."
Speaking in Henin-Beaumont, the northern French town that forms her political stronghold, Le Pen said French people, whatever their skin color, religion, origin or place of residence, would be prioritized in their own country.
Social housing and rent aid
The leader of the far-right National Rally said housing would be one of the major projects of her five-year term if elected. She said she wanted to give French citizens priority access to social housing and to reserve personal housing assistance, known as APL, for them alone.
Le Pen also said she intended to repeal the SRU law, which stands for Solidarity and Urban Renewal and requires mayors to set aside a share of their housing stock for social housing. She said she would allow a number of HLM, France's low-rent public housing units, to be sold to French residents, and pledged to evict families she described as delinquent from social housing.
Property ownership and energy rules
Praising individual home ownership, Le Pen said there was nothing happier than the feeling of harmony in one's home that comes with being able to say "I am at home." She said public land would be made available free of charge to developers, who in exchange would be required to build thousands of apartments at reduced rents.
She also said she wanted to scrap the "zero net artificialization" rule, a land-use policy known as ZAN that limits new construction on undeveloped land, which she called an ideological standard. She said she would end what she called the absurd policy behind energy performance diagnostics, known as DPE, which are used to assess the value of homes.
Renovation loans and vacant offices
Le Pen repeated her plan to replace the state renovation subsidy MaPrimeRenov' with a scheme she calls "100% renov," built around a zero-interest loan for renovation work. She also said she would launch a large-scale policy to convert vacant office space into housing.
Closing her address, Le Pen said the presidential election would decide everything, framing the choice as between letting the country sink further into the quicksand of old habits and failings, or a national awakening that she said would lead to France's renewal.
