
The Local Housing Programme -PLH- is a forecasting and programming document aimed at addressing housing needs and furthering social diversity. Established for a a six year period, the City of Paris established the first programme in June 1996 which was renewed in 2001.
The Act of the 13th August 2004 dealing with liberty and local responsibilities has considerably strengthened the PLH, however it stipulated its implementation by a Public Institution of Inter-communal Cooperation -EPCI- intended to render the PLH the tool of an inter-municipal housing policy.. The Act of the 27th March 2009 for mobilisation for housing and the fight against social exclusion (the MoLLE Law) re-established the obligation of a PLH in non EPCI member municipalities of over 20,000 inhabitants , thus contradicting previous texts favouring inter-communal Local Housing Programmes -PLH-.
The return of the communal PLH established by the MoLLE Law is aimed particularly at the Île-de-France where the inter-municipal fabric remains incomplete, notably at the centre of the urban agglomeration. In 2010 only 56% of the Île-de-France population was covered by a public organisation of inter-communal co-operation with certain independent tax functions while 75% of Île-de-France municipalities were covered by an EPCI with its own inter-communal tax offices. In such a context, for the widest possible application of a clearly defined housing law it is indispensable that a return to a municipal scale be restored until a later date when inter-communality becomes the norm in Île-de-France.
Once the bill was passed on 27th of March he City of Paris had two years to draw up a new Local Housing Programme -PLH-.
The Paris City Council finalised a PLH project on 15th November 2010 which will be instigated during the first quarter of 2011