Perimeters of the Programmed Habitat Improvement Operations (OPAH) in the Landes Department

Zoning composed of all the perimeters of planned operation of habitat improvement (OPAH). Created in 1977, the Programmed Habitat Improvement Operations (OPAH) have been the main tool for the rehabilitation of urban centres and rural villages for thirty years. Other tools have been created to respond to territorial, technical and social specificities: declination of OPAH (rural, urban, degraded condominiums), General Interest Programs (PIG) and Thematic Social Programs (PST). A planned housing improvement operation aims to rehabilitate the built heritage and improve the comfort of housing through subsidies, as well as to requalify as a whole a neighbourhood, a city, or a rural sector. They tend to improve the supply of housing, especially rental housing, and thus to maintain or develop neighbourhood services in accordance with the PLH. The OPHA responds above all to a local project, led by the local authority concerned, which the State supports as part of the challenges of national solidarity and the fight against exclusion by housing, of which it carries. There are mainly four types of OPHA: — The OPAH under ordinary law whose object is to rehabilitate neighbourhoods and their habitat; — The OPAH of urban renewal, which aims to address the “most difficult urban and social areas by creating schemes involving land or real estate interventions and coercive tools under public law (treatment of insalubrity, demolitions.)”. It coordinates different tools (PRI, RHI, PSMV, ZPPAUP); — Rural revitalisation OPHA which concerns rural areas undergoing “devitalisation”. These are rural areas characterised by demographic imbalances, income imbalances, and difficult living conditions. — The OPAH of co-ownership which provides a framework for the prevention and treatment of fragile condominiums requiring the support of the public authority to carry out the works essential for the conservation of buildings. The OPAHs are jointly designed and implemented by the State (the Prefect of Region sets priorities and distributes aid), ANAH and the communities that sign an agreement. This agreement specifies, in particular, the scope of intervention: the community concerned delimits these boundaries and sets the objectives there, in consultation with ANAH. OPAHs can take place over 5 years (maximum time) with a minimum of 3 years. OPAHs are defined by law by Article L303-1 of the Construction and Housing Code (CCH). See also: http://www.lesopah.fr/ Old OPAHs (i.e. those completed) no longer appear in these data and are archived.