# Luxembourg's 5,348 affordable homes 'under construction' can include finished ones, and no national count says how many €473.5 million was paid in 2025. The 2023 law requires every Aides à la pierre application to include planned start and end dates for the works, but the report gives no end date per convention. Canonical: [https://chathome.lu/en/insights/follow-housing-money-luxembourg](https://chathome.lu/en/insights/follow-housing-money-luxembourg) Published: 2026-10-08T20:18:11.064Z Updated: 2026-10-08T20:18:11.064Z Luxembourg paid €473.5 million into affordable housing in 2025. The ministry's report lists 5,348 State-subsidised ('conventioned') homes as under construction, though its definition includes finished ones it never separates. The only completions the minister gave, 404, cover two of dozens of developers. Renters: on our reading, most homes conventioned in 2025 are unlikely to be ready before 2027. ## Key takeaways - Place every affordable-housing number on a stage: land, payment, convention, building, finished, let. - Ask for the dates the 2023 law requires: the planned end date in each Aides à la pierre application and the allocations social landlords report to RENLA. - Treat 404 finished homes in 2025 as two developers' figure, not a national total. - If you are waiting for an affordable rental, register on RENLA but keep looking on the private market. ## Does the ministry count finished affordable homes? "The Housing Ministry has no statistics covering all completed affordable homes." That was Housing Minister Claude Meisch's [written answer to parliamentary question 4398](https://wdocs-pub.chd.lu/docs/exped/2026/07/QP_64298_1784303671331.pdf) on 17 July 2026 (our translation of *"huet keng Statistiken iwwert all färdeggestalltee abordabele Wunnengen"*). Deputy Ben Streff had asked how many affordable homes had been created in each commune over five years, and how many the communes had built themselves. The minister added that the ministry has no total number of affordable homes either. For completions, he gave only the figures of the two public developers that, in his words, build the most affordable homes in the country. He gave no figure for homes the communes built themselves. Paperjam [reported the gap on 6 July 2026](https://paperjam.lu/article/le-logement-reste-grippe-malgre-les-premiers-signes-de-reprise), from an earlier government answer to LSAP deputies Mars Di Bartolomeo and Yves Cruchten, and its [analysis of 2 July 2026](https://paperjam.lu/article/letat-investit-comme-jamais-mais-le-temps-joue-contre-lui) set out the record spending and the long delays before homes arrive. This page checks the official numbers against each other, against the previous year's report and against the subsidy law. ## The money trail, stage by stage {#stage-table} | Stage | Latest official figure | Source and coverage | What it does not tell you | |---|---|---|---| | Land bought by the State | €73 million paid for land in 2025; 1,656 ares held at 31 December 2025, potential of about 922 homes | Fonds spécial report | When anything will be built | | Money paid | €473.5 million in 2025 | Fonds spécial report, three instruments | Which homes it paid for | | Money still to pay under signed agreements | €1,087.4 million at 31 December 2025 | Fonds spécial report | When it will be paid | | Conventioned homes | 5,348 at 31 December 2025 | Fonds spécial report, all developers (student rooms and State VEFA purchases are reported separately) | Which are finished | | Planned completion date | Not published per convention | Required in every Aides à la pierre application since the 2023 law (article 19); chapter 7 gives start years, planned durations and, for eight large projects, end years | When the homes will be finished | | Homes "in realisation" | 2,562 in 2025 | Minister's answer, two developers only | Communes and non-profits | | Homes finished | 404 in 2025 | Minister's answer, two developers only | A national total | | Projects financially closed | 235 homes in 30 projects in 2025 | Fonds spécial report, all developers | When the homes were finished | | New homes let or sold | No national figure | Not in the report or the minister's answers, which count existing rental stock (below) and homes placed under social rental management, not lettings or sales of new homes | Which new homes reached tenants or buyers | | Applicants for an affordable rental | 12,401 applicant files at 31 August 2026 | RENLA register, minister's answer to question 4649 | How many have been housed | The rows cannot be added up or divided into a "delivery rate": each has its own population and date. ## What did the €474 million pay for? The Ministry's [2 July 2026 release](https://logement.public.lu/fr/actualites/2026/07/02-rapport-fonds-special.html) says €474 million went to affordable housing in 2025, against €224 million in 2024. Table 6.3 of the [2025 Fonds spécial report](https://logement.public.lu/dam-assets/documents/publications/rapports_fonds_sp%C3%A9cial/2025-rapport-fonds-special.pdf) splits the **€473.5 million** paid: **€375.2 million** of Aides à la pierre (the State's share of projects by social developers, plus €6 million to private companies), **€71.9 million** for homes the State buys off-plan (VEFA) and **€26.4 million** under the Pacte Logement, the State's housing contract with communes. The Aides à la pierre total also includes the **€73 million** the State spent buying land itself. The same table shows **€740.9 million** of new commitments in 2025 and **€1,087.4 million** still to be paid under signed agreements at 31 December 2025. The report forecasts spending of **€476 million** to **€542 million** a year from 2026 to 2029, peaking in 2027. Because a payment can go to land, planning, infrastructure or building, a year's payments cannot be matched to a year's finished homes. ## Why are 5,348 conventioned homes not 5,348 finished homes? A home is "conventioned" when the State signs an Aides à la pierre agreement to build or renovate it (a project can also receive separate agreements for land or roads). The minister says this happens once the project has reached at least the detailed design stage (*avant-projet détaillé*), so a building permit has been requested or granted, and such projects are "either under construction or shortly before the start of construction"; 98% are new builds. The report's key-figures page describes the 5,348 homes as "en construction ou en rénovation" (under construction or renovation). Its own definition, though, says the inventory also holds "finished homes, occupied or not" whose final account has not been settled. A project leaves the inventory only when it is financially closed, after its developer hands in the final account; in 2025, **30 projects** with **235 homes** did so. As a result, the 5,348 can mix homes about to start, homes being built and finished homes, and the report never gives the split. The 235 closed homes are the only all-developer figure that normally comes after completion, and even that is an accounting step: it lags, and closed project codes can be reopened. The pipeline total itself moved between editions. The [2024 report](https://logement.public.lu/dam-assets/documents/publications/rapports_fonds_sp%C3%A9cial/2024-rapport-fonds-special.pdf) put it at **4,226** homes on 292 projects at 31 December 2024; the 2025 report restates that to **4,290**, mainly because closed project codes were reactivated (the footnote giving that reason prints 3,935; see the methodology). The minister told Parliament that conventioned homes rose by **26.6%**, close to the 26.55% (26.5% at one decimal) that 5,348 gives against the first-published 4,226; the report's own flows from the restated total give **24.7%**. A growth figure for this pipeline therefore means little unless it names the edition it starts from. ## How many affordable homes were finished in 2025? The minister's figures come from the annual reports of the Fonds du Logement (the public housing developer and landlord) and SNHBM (the Société nationale des habitations à bon marché, the State-backed affordable-housing builder). In 2025 the two finished **404** homes (Fonds du Logement **116**, SNHBM **288**), against **245** in 2023, and had **2,562** homes "in realisation", the minister's term (Fonds du Logement **1,227**, SNHBM **1,335**), against **1,412** in 2023; the chart shows each year. These two build two of every three conventioned homes, according to the report, so their figures relate to most of the pipeline, although their own annual reports may not count homes exactly as the inventory does. They leave a gap all the same: of the **1,293** homes conventioned in 2025, **710** were SNHBM's and **269** the Fonds du Logement's, while **208** were with non-profit developers and **106** with communes. Those **314** homes, about a quarter of the year's additions, are outside the only completion count the minister gave. Across the whole inventory, communes (**876** homes in **127** projects) and non-profit developers (**821** in **79**) hold **1,697** of the 5,348 homes, about 32%, but **206** of the **351** projects. The report says about fifty developers carry these projects, most of them communes, and its own annex 9.1 names more; the completion figures cover two. Annex 9.3 adds a stock count: **4,489** public rental homes at 1 January 2025 (**1,468** owned by communes, **2,439** by the Fonds du Logement and **582** by SNHBM; 0.65 for every 100 inhabitants). Its commune count follows the definition used to share out municipal funding, and the total fell as well as rose over the four years shown (**3,873**, **4,117**, **3,817**, then **4,489**), so its changes cannot be read as new building; it also leaves out non-profit landlords' rentals and homes sold at affordable prices. ## What does the law already require? Every application for Aides à la pierre must include a timetable with the planned start and end dates of the works (article 19 of the [2023 law](https://logement.public.lu/dam-assets/documents/legislation/lois/logabo-loi-07-08-2023-accessible.pdf), kept by the reform). The 2023 law sets this requirement; many of the 5,348 homes were conventioned before it (annex 9.1 lists conventions with homes back to 2009); this page did not check whether the earlier rules required such a date. Social landlords must report to the register the homes they allocate under its general procedure, and any refusal by applicants (article 53). Asked directly in question 4649 how many homes had been allocated to applicants in the register since it started, the minister gave no number (answer of 22 September 2026). The government said on 15 April 2026 that RENLA makes it possible to have an overview of the affordable stock, including its type, location and occupancy rate. The same release counted about 3,500 homes in the register and said that entering all of them, about 4,300, would be finished "in the coming weeks". Three months later the minister wrote that the ministry has no total number of affordable homes, citing instead the 4,489 public rental homes of annex 9.3 and adding that RENLA would be filled gradually with conventioned homes; on 22 September he wrote that the register did not yet cover the whole affordable stock and that homes were still being added gradually. Neither document says whether April's "all" (about 4,300 homes) and September's "whole affordable stock" are the same set of homes. Neither the report nor the minister's answers publish planned end dates for each convention: annex 9.1 gives each convention's date, homes and unpaid balance, but no planned or actual end date. Only chapter 7 gives dates, for its largest projects: start years and planned durations (for example Neischmelz: started in spring 2024, planned to take 15 to 20 years) and, for eight projects with their own financing law, a planned period of works with an end year. When the State buys homes itself, it does publish dates: its [release of 18 December 2025](https://logement.public.lu/fr/actualites/2025/12/18-vilan-vefa.html) gave a dated completion calendar for the 358 off-plan (VEFA) homes it had acquired, from 68 already finished to 100 due in the third quarter of 2028. The report and the minister's answers give no comparable completion calendar for the 5,348 conventioned homes. ## How many homes has the State bought off-plan (VEFA)? The State also buys homes off-plan (VEFA). The 2025 report counts **460** homes at 31 December 2025 in its table and **565** in its own annex description of the same table, and its key figures call them acquired (section 6.2 says the State is committed to them), while the ministry's release of 18 December 2025 counted **358** acquired; none of the documents cited here reconciles them. Later counts include reservations (see the methodology). For the 358 homes, the ministry's [calendar of December 2025](https://logement.public.lu/fr/actualites/2025/12/18-vilan-vefa.html), repeated in [March 2026](https://logement.public.lu/fr/actualites/2026/03/04-visite-vefa-mertert.html), gave **68** as finished and forecast the rest between early 2026 and the third quarter of 2028. Once finished, the homes are to be managed by SNHBM and the Fonds du Logement; therefore, do not add VEFA counts to the developers' figures. The July 2026 changes are in our explainer on [the €300 million extension of the State's off-plan programme](/en/insights/booster-fir-de-wunnengsbau-luxembourg-2026-measures). ## Waiting for an affordable rental: when will new homes arrive? Of the 5,348 conventioned homes at 31 December 2025, **3,430** (64%) are planned as affordable rentals open to all, **19** are rentals for specific groups such as young adults, and **1,899** (36%) are for affordable sale, typically on a long lease (emphyteusis). That is a stock of projects of every age, not homes you can apply for today. For the newest projects, the report's own timeline sets the pace. A convention to build homes is signed only once the developer has a detailed design, and building can then last **2 to 4 years**, according to the report's explanatory annex. Therefore, on our reading of those general phase lengths, most of the **1,293** homes conventioned in 2025, more than twice the 504 of 2024, are unlikely to be ready before 2027, although some projects are already being built when they are conventioned and may arrive sooner. For older conventions, too, the report gives no completion date per convention. On the demand side, the minister's [answer to question 4649](https://wdocs-pub.chd.lu/docs/Dossier_Question_ecrite_4649/20260922_ReponseParlementaire.pdf) of 22 September 2026 counted **12,401** applicant files in RENLA at 31 August 2026. He said it was still too early to judge whether RENLA speeds up matching homes and applicants, because the register does not yet cover all affordable homes, and that social landlords still allocate homes not yet in RENLA under their previous procedures. In practice: - If you were already on a social landlord's list, the ministry's [RENLA page](https://logement.public.lu/fr/locataire/renla.html) says your file was carried over automatically; if not, apply on MyGuichet.lu or with a social landlord (see [who can register on RENLA and what rent you would pay](/en/insights/renla-affordable-housing-register-guide)). - Ask the social landlords near you how they allocate homes that are not yet in the register. - Keep looking on the private market in parallel (see the timing above). - Know the new rules: the [law of 7 September 2026](https://legilux.public.lu/filestore/eli/etat/leg/loi/2026/09/07/a476/jo/fr/pdfa/eli-etat-leg-loi-2026-09-07-a476-jo-fr-pdfa.pdf) asks affordable tenants for a €3,000 rental guarantee, paid in instalments within two years of moving in (other changes in the methodology). None of this changes the 2025 counts above. ## Worked example: reading one project in annex 9.1 Annex 9.1 of the report lists the inventory's conventions, project by project (a project can have several), with developer, locality, convention date, number of homes and the money still to pay at 31 December 2025. Take one row: SNHBM's résidence Rucio in Diekirch, **20** new rental homes conventioned on **27 January 2016**, nearly ten years before the report's cut-off, with **€979,180** still to pay at 31 December 2025. The row does not say whether the 20 homes are finished, let or still being built. An old convention with money still to pay is not proof of a stalled project, because the final account may simply be outstanding. For a councillor or a resident, the useful question is therefore which of these homes are finished, and which are let. ## What is the strongest case for the ministry? Affordable projects take years: the report allows 2 to 4 years just for building the homes, after land, planning and infrastructure phases that can take much longer. The two developers counted build two of every three conventioned homes, and their homes "in realisation" rose sharply from 2023 to 2025. Dating 358 homes the State buys itself is easier than dating 5,348 homes built by dozens of developers, and the report does give start years and planned durations for its largest projects, and end years for eight of them. The minister also argues that a national register needs time to hold complete, reliable and current data (answer to question 4649). And he disclosed the gap himself, in writing, in answer to a question that asked for a commune-by-commune count. That case is fair, and nothing on this page shows waste, delay or misuse in any project. But it does not close the gap. About a quarter of the homes added in 2025 sit outside the completion figures, neither the report nor the minister's answers give a national count of new homes let or sold, and the pipeline total changed between two reports. With the July 2026 report forecasting €476 million to €542 million a year until 2029, that is the missing fact. ## What would change this conclusion? Two results would change this page. A published count of homes finished and first let, by year and developer, communes and non-profit builders included, would close the central gap. And if the planned end dates in the 2025 applications show most of those 1,293 homes due in 2026, the advice to waiting renters is wrong. Two things to watch: allocation figures from RENLA, and the next Fonds spécial report, if it follows this year's July timing. ## What can you do with this? - **If you read a housing announcement**, place each number in [the stage table](#stage-table) before you compare or share it: land, payment, convention, building, finished, let. - **If you sit on a commune council or follow one**, find your commune's projects in [annex 9.1](https://logement.public.lu/dam-assets/documents/publications/rapports_fonds_sp%C3%A9cial/2025-rapport-fonds-special.pdf#page=67) (pages 67 to 89 of the report, listed by type of developer) and ask, as in the worked example, which are finished and let. Then compare your commune's affordable rental homes per 100 inhabitants in [annex 9.3](https://logement.public.lu/dam-assets/documents/publications/rapports_fonds_sp%C3%A9cial/2025-rapport-fonds-special.pdf#page=95) (pages 95 to 97; national figure 0.65). - **If you want to buy an affordable home**, RENLA will not help: it is for renters. Ask SNHBM, the Fonds du Logement or your commune; if you are considering buying off-plan on the private market, see our [VEFA buying guide](/en/insights/guide-vefa-buying-luxembourg). Should the ministry now publish the planned end dates that the 2023 law requires every application to contain, and an incomplete but dated count of homes finished and let, by developer, as it already does with a calendar for the homes it buys off-plan? Or should it wait until RENLA covers the whole stock, so that partial counts are not quoted as national totals? Tell us which, and why, in the comments at the end of this page. *This page explains public records. It is not legal or financial advice.* ## Methodology We read each figure from the document that publishes it and kept its stage, date and population. Payments, commitments and balances come from table 6.3 of the 2025 Fonds spécial report (375.2 + 71.9 + 26.4 = 473.5; 833.1 + 179.6 + 74.7 = 1,087.4 million euros); land purchases and forecasts from its key figures and spending chapter. The 2025 flows add up from the restated total: 4,290 + 1,293 added − 235 closed = 5,348. The 2025 report's footnote prints the restated end-2024 figure as 3,935, but that is the end-2023 total from the 2024 report; the 2025 text and chart both use 4,290, so the footnote appears to repeat last year's number by mistake (5,348 against 3,935 would give 35.9%). The 2024 report had restated its end-2023 total from 3,786 to 3,935, partly for accounting reasons and partly because each place in collective housing was from then on counted individually. Table 6.3 also gives an opening balance of €820.3 million (its printed header dates both balance columns 31/12/2025). Under the reform, the Fonds du Logement is excluded from the return on capital, while communes and groupings of communes can claim it on request, subject to budget, back to 1 October 2023. The reform also makes the date a rental home is first let, rather than the convention date, fix the return-on-capital rates for developers entitled to one (amended article 13). The definition that includes finished homes awaiting their final account is on page 14 and in annex 10.5 (page 106); the start years and planned durations of the largest projects, and the planned periods of works of eight projects with their own financing law, are in chapter 7. Inventory totals, the restatement footnote and 2025 additions by developer come from section 5.1, the split by intended use from section 5.2; the end-2023 and end-2024 totals as first published come from section 5.1 of the 2024 report; project-level convention dates and balances from annex 9.1, and stock by developer group from section 5.4; the rental stock from annex 9.3 (a commune home counts only if the commune owns it and lets it for at least ten months of the year); phase lengths from the report's explanatory annex; VEFA counts from section 6.2, its table and its annex description. Growth rates are 5,348 divided by each published end-2024 total, minus one (24.66% from 4,290; 26.55%, or 26.5% at one decimal, from 4,226). Completion and in-realisation counts are the minister's tables in the answer to question 4398, which cover two developers; combined values are simple sums. RENLA counts are applicant files from the answer to question 4649. Its dates come from the government's list of 2026 changes, the minister's answer to question 4398, the text of question 4649 and the government's release of 15 April 2026, which also gives about 3,500 registered homes and about 8,900 applicant files at that date; its carry-over rule comes from the ministry's RENLA page. We do not compare 8,900 with 12,401, because the answer to question 4649 does not reconcile its own set-up figures, nor with the 9,486 households Paperjam reported at 1 April 2026, which use another unit. VEFA detail: the report's table lists 12 projects although its text says 13, with €296.7 million committed, while its annex description gives 565 homes and €340.4 million and is unsure of the table's signs; a note in annex 9.1 gives 228 homes, apparently carried over from the 2024 report; the March 2026 update counted 358 acquired and 179 reserved, together the 537 acquired or being acquired in the answer to question 3752 (April 2026), and the 2 July 2026 release counts 830 acquired or reserved; none of the documents cited here reconciles the 460, 565 and 830 with each other or with the 537; the ministry's calendar for the 358 is 68 finished, 15 in early 2026, 28 by the end of 2026, 147 in the second quarter of 2027 and 100 in the third quarter of 2028; the programme was first set at about 800 homes and €480 million, with purchases planned from 2024 to 2027. RENLA set-up figures: 15,426 files imported, 10,247 duplicates of 2,596 applicants removed (some had been registered with several landlords, up to seven times; one RENLA file now replaces separate applications), 3,256 new files; the answer does not show how these add up to 12,401. Under the reform, which Paperjam reported took effect on 2 October 2026, social landlords that manage more than 100 affordable rental homes may choose the tenant without the usual priority criteria for part of them, from 10% (above 100 homes) to 50% (above 750), if the applicant is eligible and the household fits the home; the 2023 law already allowed this for larger landlords. The VEFA calendar and the 358, 179 and 800 figures come from the ministry's releases of 18 December 2025 and 5 March 2026; the 537 comes from the answer to question 3752, and the €480 million and €300 million from the ministry's Booster release of 17 July 2026, which repeats the 830 of the 2 July release. The planned-date (article 19) and allocation-report (article 53) rules are read from the ministry's coordinated text of the law of 7 August 2023; the repeal of article 25, paragraph 3 and its stated reason from the law of 7 September 2026 (Mémorial A 476, 28 September 2026) and bill 8535 as filed. Until the reform, the law also required a developer to claim its last payment within two years of the home's first occupation; the reform repealed that rule (article 25, paragraph 3), which bill 8535 presents as a consequence of dropping another two-year filing deadline. No ChatHome listing data is used. Documents read on 3, 4 and 5 October 2026. ## Limitations The ministry has no national count of finished affordable homes, so this page cannot say how many homes the 2025 money produced, and it does not try. Payments, conventions, building and completions describe different projects and years. The two developers' figures come from their own annual reports as relayed by the minister; the definition of "in realisation" may differ between them. VEFA homes are managed by the same two developers once finished, so VEFA and developer counts may overlap. Annex 9.1 lists projects with their convention dates; its group subtotals (5,980) also include 632 student rooms, which the report counts separately from homes. We did not derive a count of homes by convention age from it. Phase lengths are the report's general estimates, not project schedules. The VEFA calendar gives 68 homes as finished and a forecast for the other 290, set in December 2025 and repeated in March 2026; it is not a record of deliveries. RENLA's demand figures count applicant files; the minister does not say how many households they represent. The ministry, the Fonds du Logement, SNHBM and the communes may hold records that are not public. They were not asked for comment before this version was written. The reform of the affordable-housing law sets no general start date; its start on 2 October 2026 is as reported by Paperjam, while the law back-dates some payment rules to 1 October 2023. 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No. The €474 million rounds €473.5 million of payments made in 2025 across three instruments, including €73 million for land. The 5,348 homes are conventioned homes at 31 December 2025, ranging from projects about to start to finished homes awaiting their final account. ### How many affordable homes were finished in Luxembourg in 2025? The ministry has no national figure: the Housing Minister told Parliament on 17 July 2026 that it has no statistics covering all completed affordable homes. The Fonds du Logement finished 116 and SNHBM 288, so 404 together, for two of dozens of developers; communes and non-profit developers are not included. ### What is a conventioned affordable home? A home in a project for which the State has signed an Aides à la pierre agreement with the developer. According to the minister, this requires at least a detailed design, with a building permit requested or granted. It does not mean the home is finished. ### What is RENLA, and how many are waiting? RENLA, the national register of affordable housing, lists affordable homes and collects rental applications. Official sources give different start dates (1 January 2026 in the government's list of 2026 changes, April 2026 according to the minister). It held 12,401 applicant files on 31 August 2026. Social landlords still allocate homes not yet in the register under their previous procedures. ### When will the affordable homes conventioned in 2025 be ready? No completion date is published per convention. A convention is signed once a project has a detailed design, and the Fonds spécial report estimates 2 to 4 years for building the homes. On our reading of those general estimates, most of the 1,293 homes conventioned in 2025 are unlikely to be ready before 2027.