Dataset Direct Download Service (WFS): Planned habitat improvement operations

Established in 1977, the programmed habitat improvement operations (OPAH) have been the main tool for the rehabilitation of urban centres and rural towns for the past 30 years. Other tools have been created to respond to territorial, technical and social specificities: declination of OPAH (rural, urban, degraded condominiums), General Interest Programmes (GIPs) and Thematic Social Programs (PST). A planned housing improvement operation aims to rehabilitate built heritage and improve housing comfort through subsidies, as well as to reclassify a neighbourhood, a city, or a rural area as a whole. They tend to improve the supply of housing, in particular rental accommodation and thus maintain or develop neighbourhood services in line with the PLH. The OPAH responds above all to a local project, carried out by the local authority concerned, which the State supports as part of the challenges of national solidarity and the fight against exclusion through housing, which it promotes. There are mainly four types of OPAH:- Common law OPAH whose purpose is to upgrade neighbourhoods and their habitat;- The urban renewal OPAH, which aims to deal with “the most difficult urban and social areas by creating schemes involving land or real estate interventions and coercive tools under public law (treatment of unsanitary treatment, demolitions.)”. It enables the coordination of various tools (PRI, RHI, PSMV, ZPPAUP);- The rural revitalisation OPAH, which concerns rural areas in the process of “devitalisation”. These are rural areas characterised by demographic imbalances, income imbalances, and difficult living conditions.- The co-ownership OPAH, which provides a framework for the prevention and treatment of fragile condominiums requiring the support of the public authorities to carry out the works essential for the conservation of buildings.The OPAH are jointly designed and implemented by the State (the Prefect of the Region sets priorities and allocates aid), the ANAH and the communities that sign an agreement. The agreement shall specify, in particular, the scope of intervention: the community concerned delimits these boundaries and sets the objectives, in consultation with the ANAH. OPAH can take place over 5 years (maximum time limit) with a minimum of 3 years. OPAHs are legally defined by Article L303-1 of the Construction and Housing Code (CCH).