Union pour l'Habitat Social de Normandie

What Union pour l'Habitat Social de Normandie does

Union pour l'Habitat Social de Normandie (UHS Normandie) is a non-profit professional association founded in 1968 and headquartered in Rouen, France. It serves as the regional voice of the professional Hlm (social housing) movement in Normandy, representing 47 social housing organisms that are members of the association. The organization provides collective representation to public authorities and local communities, professional support and technical assistance on priority social housing themes, participation in collective local habitat policies, and production of territorialized information for its members.

UHS Normandie operates with a lean team of 8 staff spread across the Normandy region, with a regional direction in Rouen and a territorial delegation in Caen. Governance is provided by a Board of Directors of 20 members representing different families of organisms and different departments. The association's revenue model is based on membership dues from its 47 constituent social housing organisms, making it a member-funded professional body rather than a product or service company.

The association's underlying technology is a basic informational website platform (uhs-normandie.org) with contact forms, a newsletter system, and publication resources, built by Marque Blanche and hosted by WISTEE. It also operates the 'Les Hlm recrutent' recruitment platform enabling member organisms to publish job offers across Normandy, and a 'Se loger' housing information service directing residents to social housing resources. The organization does not directly manage or attribute housing stock; it functions as an intermediary and representative body for its member organizations.

Name

Union pour l'Habitat Social de Normandie

Legal name

L'Union pour l'Habitat Social de Normandie

Website

https://uhs-normandie.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

UHS Normandie is a non-profit professional association representing 47 social housing organisms in Normandy, providing collective representation, professional support, and territorialized information to its members. Headquartered in Rouen.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Housing Association Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC)

Keywords

• Social housing association
• Professional housing representation
• Housing policy advocacy
• Member association services
• Territorialized housing information

Headquarters

HQ city

Rouen

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: As a professional association representing 47 social housing organizations in Normandy, UHS Normandie is funded through membership contributions from its member organisms. The organization does not directly manage or attribute housing but provides collective representation and professional support services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

UHS Normandie is a regional professional association that represents 47 social housing organisms (Organismes HLM) in Normandy, France. Its core services include collective representation of the Hlm movement to public authorities, local communities, and partners; professional support and technical assistance to member organisms on priority social housing themes; collective participation in local habitat policies; and the production of territorialized information for member organizations across the five Normandy departments.

Product overview

Union pour l'Habitat Social de Normandie is a professional association serving social housing organizations in Normandy, not a product or technology company. The organization provides collective representation in local housing policies, professional support and technical assistance to member organizations, and territorialized information production. The organization's website serves as an informational portal providing resources on social housing, recruitment, publications, and housing assistance to residents.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Collective Representation in Local Habitat Policies

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• WISTEEminorOthersWISTEE provides web hosting services for the UHS Normandie website. The company's headquarters is located at 8, rue Etienne Dolet – 95340 PERSAN, and they can be reached at 03 44 02 02 15.
• Marque BlancheminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerMarque Blanche provides website creation and management services for UHS Normandie. Located at 120 rue François Jacob – 76230 ISNEAUVILLE, they can be contacted at 02 77 64 52 02 or [email protected].

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• AURA HLM (Union régionale Hlm Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes): AURA HLM is a regional HLM professional association in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It carries out a near-identical mandate to UHS Normandie—collective representation of social housing organisms, professional support on priority themes, and territorialized information production—just in a different French region, making it a structurally comparable peer.
• AR Hlm de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Regional HLM association in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté performing the same collective-representation and professional-support role as UHS Normandie for its constituent social housing organisms in that region. Functionally a sister organization within the national USH network.
• Fédération nationale des Associations régionales HLM (FNAR HLM): FNAR HLM is the national body coordinating the regional HLM associations of which UHS Normandie is one. It provides inter-regional coordination, training, and shared advocacy resources, making it a direct counterpart and parent-level peer to UHS Normandie.

Broad incumbents

• Fédération des Entreprises Sociales pour l'Habitat (ESH): ESH is the national professional federation for the ESH family of social housing operators. UHS Normandie represents HLM organisms as a whole (including ESH, OPH, and cooperatives); Fédération des ESH represents the subset of ESH members, with partially overlapping representation and policy-advocacy scope.
• Union sociale pour l'habitat (USH): USH is the national federation of HLM organizations in France. It is the umbrella body to which UHS Normandie is structurally linked as a regional union, performing overlapping representation, advocacy, and professional-support functions for social housing organisms across the country.
• Fédération des Offices Publics de l'Habitat (FOPH): FOPH is the national federation of public housing offices (OPH), one of the organism families that UHS Normandie represents alongside ESHs and cooperatives. It offers overlapping representation services for its specific organism family and is a parallel voice in HLM policy advocacy.
• Procivis Réseau: Procivis is a national network of regional SACI/SAPRIM cooperatives active in social and affordable housing, urban renewal, and homeownership support. It is a parallel ecosystem organization with overlapping membership in HLM-aligned actors and shared advocacy themes with UHS Normandie.

Emerging players

• Habitat en Région (Groupe CDC Habitat): Habitat en Région is a national federation of CDC-affiliated regional social housing companies covering multiple French regions, with a representation and service offering for member organisms that overlaps with UHS Normandie's mission in territories where both are active.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/union-pour-l-habitat-social-de-normandie

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