Tool for monitoring housing

Since 2006, Garges-lès-Gonesse (FR) has been working with apartment block owners to improve the living conditions of residents in the city's large private housing complexes. This ambition has been strengthened since 2020 with a comprehensive policy aimed at halting the spiral of degradation, combatting poor housing conditions, and making the city's apartment blocks more attractive. To achieve this, the city has implemented a strategy to better understand the specific issues facing this form of housing and to develop effective tools tailored for each residence. The Condominium Monitoring and Observatory (VOC) tool was created in 2021, under the Covenant of Mayors initiative. Based on three pillars of intervention (prevention, incentive actions, and reinforced actions), the tool is the result of the city’s unique ‘Garges Habitat 2034’ policy.