#TECL2608932AExpanded subsidy rules for homes at risk from clay-soil shrink-swell damage
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This law updates a French experimental subsidy scheme that helps homeowners prevent damage from clay-soil shrink-swell movement. It narrows the program to homes with no more than two housing units, sets the technical and damage limits for eligibility, and adds a hard deadline: applications must be filed by 31 December 2028. For homeowners and their advisors, the practical impact is clear: they must first get a vulnerability diagnosis, then complete only the eligible prevention works, such as drainage, root control, and perimeter impermeabilization. The text also sets spending caps, required documents, and rules for who can act as technical or administrative support.
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Key Changes
- Limits eligibility to residential buildings with no more than two housing units.
- Sets stricter eligibility rules for the works phase, including no serious structural damage and only minor cracking.
- Creates a filing deadline of 31 December 2028 and updates the required documents, spending caps, and eligible works.
Obligations
What this law requires
Owners seeking the experimental subsidy must file their aid applications no later than 31 December 2028.
For phase studies funding, the diagnostic of vulnerability of the dwelling must be carried out by a professional meeting the competence and experience requirements of Article R.125-9 of the Insurance Code, including for construction, civil engineering or geotechnics, and the diagnosis must include inspection of buried water networks.
The phase studies file must include the mandatory supporting documents listed in Annex 3, including identity, tax, banking, proof of ownership, insurance, insurer attestation, detailed quotes, and the diagnostic report with photos signed and dated by the technical assistant.
Only the prevention works listed as eligible in Annex 1 may be financed under the scheme; the diagnosis must distinguish priority eligible works, secondary eligible works, and ineligible works, and only eligible works count toward the subsidy base.
For phase works funding, the works must be directed by a project manager who meets the conditions of Article L.1792-1 of the Civil Code, knows the shrink-swell clay phenomenon, is technically able to carry out the recommended works, and is independent from the works contractors.