Paris asks for flexibility on the timetable for banning rentals

This time, it is a left-wing political voice, committed to ecological renovation, which calls for a relaxation of coercive measures with regard to thermal strainers located in condominiums. The deputy (PCF) to the mayor of Paris Jacques Baudrier, responsible for housing and the ecological transition of buildings, who carries the renovation aid program “Eco-rénovons Paris +”, wrote Thursday January 25 to the first minister to propose the postponement, under conditions, of a timetable judged “unattainable”.

This, set by the Climate and Resilience law, prohibits the rental or re-rental of the worst thermal strainers (classified “G +”) since 1^er January 2023, then will extend this ban to all properties classified “G” on 1^er January 2025 – then to “F” in 2028 and to “E” in 2034.

“The timetable is too short for all the co-owners involved in the renovation process to have completed their work before 1^er January 2025. It is more than likely that a very large majority of housing in category “G” currently is still in category 1^er next January and are therefore no longer able to be re-let”worries, in his letter to Gabriel Attal, the communist elected official of the 20^e district of Paris.

60 000 fewer homes

He fears that many owners of “G” housing, having been unable to have work started in time by their co-ownership, will choose to no longer rent. “This implies that potentially 60,000 housing units in Paris and 170,000 housing units in Ile-de-France could be withdrawn from the private rental market”says the housing assistant.

A worrying prospect, in the midst of the housing crisis. “Every day, as a local elected official, I measure the growing difficulties residents have in finding accommodation in the private rental market, he said, while at the same time the drop in the turnover rate in social housing makes access to social housing more complex. »

Real estate professionals, for their part, are seeing an increase in sales of thermal strainers, a portion of which is being withdrawn from the rental market so as not to have to carry out renovation work. “Until the start of 2023, the share of old homes sold with “F” and “G” energy labels continues to grow (…) thus reaching 18% on 2^e quarter 2023 (i.e. +7 points in two years) »observe in a note on the situation of October 2023 the Superior Council of Notaries.

The proposal sent to Matignon consists of modifying the Climate and Resilience law so that a property classified “G” in a co-ownership is considered decent, by way of derogation, until 1^er January 2028, on the condition that this accommodation has benefited from work in the private areas, recommended by an individual energy performance diagnosis. But it will also be necessary that the general meeting of co-ownership has adopted, before 1^er January 2026, a draft multi-year work plan with a work schedule allowing the housing to achieve the minimum required level of performance, before January 1^er January 2028. Or that failing that, a global diagnosis of the co-ownership has been carried out and the general assembly has voted to carry out the work, within the same deadlines.

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