9 36. The Building and Housing Code reads: “Article L302-5 (as amended by Act No. 2007-290 of 5 March 2007) : These provisions shall apply to municipalities with a population of at least 1,500 in Ilede-France and 3,500 in the other regions that are included, according to the population census, in an urban area with more than 50,000 inhabitants with at least one municipality with more than 15,000 inhabitants, and in which the total stock of social housing for rent on 1 January of the previous year constituted fewer than 20% of principal residences. These provisions do not apply to municipalities in urban areas whose population declined between the last two censuses and that belong to a formal grouping of municipalities in either large or medium-sized urban areas or a grouping of other municipalities with local housing programme responsibilities, once such a programme has been adopted. From 1 January 2008, these provisions shall also apply, in accordance with the first sub-paragraph, to municipalities that are members of a joint local authority body with its own tax-raising powers with a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants and at least one municipality with more than 15,000 inhabitants, if the municipality in question has a population of at least 1,500 in Ile-de-France and 3,500 in the other regions and its total stock of social housing for rent on 1 January of the previous year constituted fewer than 20% of principal residences. The levy specified in Article L. 302-7 shall be operative from 1 January 2014.” “Article L302-6 (as amended by Act No. 2007-290 of 5 March 2007): In municipalities situated in urban areas covered by this section, legal persons that are owners or managers of social housing within the meaning of Article L. 302-5 are required, each year before 1 July, to supply the prefect with a list, by municipality, of the social housing they owned or managed on 1 January of the current year. […].” “Article L302-7 (as amended by Act No. 2007-290 of 5 March 2007): From 1 January 2002, a levy shall be imposed on the tax income of municipalities specified in Article L. 302-5, other than ones that receive the urban solidarity and social cohesion allowance specified in Article L. 2334-15 of the Local and Regional Authorities Code when their stock of social housing exceeds 15% of principal residences. The levy shall be 20% of the per capita tax-raising potential, as defined in Article L. 2334-4 of the Local and Regional Authorities Code, multiplied by the difference between 20% of the principal residences and the number of social housing units in the municipality concerned in the previous year, as defined in Article L. 302-5, but may not exceed 5% of the municipality's real operating expenditure as recorded in the last but one financial year. The levy shall not be imposed if it less than € 3,811.23.” 37. The Right to Housing Act, No. 90-449 of 31 May 1990, reads: “Section 2, inserted pursuant to Section 65 of the Local Responsibilities and Freedoms Act, No.2004-809 of 13 August 2004: Each département shall draw up a housing action plan for the disadvantaged, setting out the planned measures to enable persons specified in section 1 to obtain or retain decent and independent housing with water and energy supplies and telephone services.” “Section 3, as amended by Act No. 2006-872 of 13 July 2006, Section 60 I: Housing action plans shall be drawn up and implemented by the State and the département. Municipalities and their groupings shall be consulted, together with other legal persons concerned, in particular associations whose objectives include the integration or housing of disadvantaged persons and associations that defend persons who are excluded from housing, family allowance and agricultural mutual funds, water and energy suppliers, telephone operators, public and private landlords and those responsible for collecting employers’ contributions to housing construction. Plans shall be drawn up for a minimum of three years.[…]”