Housing, Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Emergency shelter: €3bn homelessness plan: emergency shelters built, requisitions
Direction of change: increase, compared with current law.
The lever. Shelter places for homeless people, reception conditions, and the Housing First policy. Direction rule: ↑ more places and resources.
« Donc nous proposons à la fois des hébergements d'urgence construits, à la fois de pouvoir faire des réquisitions et à partir de là de rendre ces réquisitions habitables. Nous avons estimé ce coût de ce plan du sans-abrisme à 3 milliards d'euros, qui n'est pas la même chose que, je l'ai dit tout à l'heure, les investissements nécessaires pour construire, évidemment, des logements publics qui sont dans notre programme. »1Translation by the editorsSo we are proposing both building emergency shelters and being able to carry out requisitions, and from there making these requisitioned properties habitable. We have estimated the cost of this homelessness plan at 3 billion euros, which is not the same thing as, as I said earlier, the investment needed to build, of course, the public housing that is in our programme.
Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo), 14 October 2026. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, tasked by the candidate with carrying the programme: they commit the candidate.
Link to the candidacy: Alongside Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he presents the budget the candidate would have passed from 2027 through an amending finance act; he is responsible for his economic programme.
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| Parameter | Current law | Proposed | Effective date or horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additional annual envelope for emergency accommodation and action against homelessness | 0 €bn/year | 3 €bn/year (assumption by the editors, see the costing) | full year 2032, €bn/year |
Costing
Announced by the candidate
−€3bn
per year, new spending. Éric Coquerel, press conference of 14 October 2026 (around 0:43:26): « Nous avons estimé ce coût de ce plan du sans-abrisme à 3 milliards d'euros » [“We have estimated the cost of this homelessness plan at 3 billion euros”]
Published costings
none
No external costing of this position recorded to date.
Our calculation
−€3bn
per year for the public accounts, new spending. Candidate’s amount, taken as is.
The calculation
- Additional annual envelope for emergency accommodation and action against homelessness: (3 − 0) ÷ 1 = 3 times “+€1bn per year of appropriations for emergency accommodation or action against homelessness”, each a cost of €1bn (1 to 1).
Assumption by the editors. Plan against homelessness announced at €3bn (Éric Coquerel, 14 October 2026), with no number of places: envelope taken at the candidate's amount, read as €3bn a year in a full year (the amount is given for the 2027 budget). Benchmark: programme 177 as a whole is worth €3.07bn in the PLF 2026; converted at the average cost of a place in the current stock (€6.6k to €15k), the plan would fund 200,000 to 450,000 places, which shows that it mixes construction and operation.
Figure announced by the candidate: candidate’s amount, taken as is.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Unconditional reception (article L. 345-2-2 of the Code de l'action sociale et des familles). General-purpose capacity stable at 203,000 places since 2021. Programme 177: €3.07bn in payment appropriations in the PLF 2026, of which €1.34bn for general-purpose capacity (emergency shelters, hotels).
Horizon. full year 2032, €bn/year
Limits. Envelope announced in billions (plan with no number of places): the candidate's amount, taken as is (rule on amounts taken over, decision of 18 October 2026); benchmark: the whole of programme 177 is worth €3.07bn in payment appropriations in the PLF 2026. An envelope and places costed separately would overlap (overlap declared). Low value: €1.34bn / 203,000 ≈ €6.6k per place per year (general-purpose stock). High value: the whole of programme 177 / 203,000 ≈ €15k. The actual cost depends on the type of place: a CHRS (shelter and social reintegration centre) with support costs more than a night in a hotel. The programme is structurally under-budgeted, which makes the “current policies” baseline fragile. People in an irregular administrative situation in the general-purpose stock (excluding the reception scheme for asylum seekers) in 2024: at least 39,000 (low estimate; median 52,000, high 78,000), according to the spending review by the IGF, IGAS and IGA (May 2025), which considers the data fragile (status known for 52% of people).
- AN, rapport spécial PLF 2026, Logement et hébergement d'urgence, 2025-10: « 1 315,5 millions d'euros en AE et 1 340,3 millions d'euros en CP ... sont consacrés au parc d'hébergement généraliste ... maintien des capacités d'accueil à hauteur de 203 000 places ; 3,047 milliards d'euros en AE et 3,071 milliards d'euros en CP sont prévus au titre du programme 177 »
- IGF, IGAS et IGA, revue de dépenses sur l'hébergement d'urgence (mai 2025), tableau 13, 2025-05: « Dans le SI-SIAO, le statut administratif des personnes hébergées n'est connu que pour 52 % d'entre elles (soit pour environ 100 000 personnes sur un effectif total de 192 570 places en 2024). […] la Dihal dénombre 39 000 personnes en situation administrative irrégulière. ; tableau 13 : estimation basse 39 000, médiane 52 000, haute 78 000 »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo), 14 October 2026. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, tasked by the candidate with carrying the programme: they commit the candidate. Read the source (Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo)).
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