Planned Habitat Improvement Operation (OPAH), supra-communal zoning in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Zoning layer consisting of the supra-communal perimeters of OPAH throughout the Auvergne-Rhône_Alpes region An OPAH 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: — Common law => Subject matter: Upgrading neighbourhoods and their habitat; — Urban renewal => Ambition: Address the “most difficult urban and social areas by creating schemes involving land or real estate interventions and coercive public law tools (treatment of unhealthy conditions, demolitions) — Rural revitalisation => Concern: rural areas undergoing “devitalisation”. These are rural areas characterised by demographic imbalances, income imbalances, and difficult living conditions. — Co-ownership => Offer: a framework for the prevention and treatment of fragile condominiums requiring the support of public authorities to carry out the works essential for the conservation of buildings. The OPAHs are designed and implemented jointly by the State, ANAH and the communities that sign a convention. 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.