Rhône Saône Habitat is a French cooperative HLM specialising in housing development and management. It was created in 1950 and is legally organised as a cooperative public-limited company involved in the construction and management of homes.111 The organisation is headquartered at Pôle Coopératif WOOPA, 10 avenue des Canuts, in Vaulx-en-Velin, near Lyon.23
Its three principal activities are residential property development, condominium management and rental management.1 Through these activities, it supports both home ownership and renting, including affordable and socially regulated housing.12 The cooperative structure means that buyers and tenants benefit from specific governance and operating rules, while the organisation’s profits are reinvested in its construction activity rather than distributed.
Rhône Saône Habitat’s work is concentrated in the Lyon metropolitan area and surrounding municipalities.11 Its website lists current or recent programmes in Villeurbanne, Saint-Fons, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Chaponost, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Colombier-Saugnieu, Loire-sur-Rhône and Rillieux-la-Pape, indicating a primarily regional operating area in and around the Rhône department.1 Earlier projects and corporate material also document activity in Vénissieux and the wider Lyon urban area.
The organisation reported more than 45 employees in 2021.1 Arnaud Cécillon has served as its director general since 1 January 2022. Its legal form is a cooperative HLM company with a board of directors, registered with the Lyon commercial registry under SIREN 997 625 801.3 Rhône Saône Habitat maintains an official LinkedIn company page, which describes it as an independent cooperative focused on the Lyon metropolitan area and identifies its workforce as 11–50 employees.