Four Breton collectives for access to housing demonstrated on Saturday in Douarnenez and Concarneau (Finistère), Vannes (Morbihan) and Lannion (Côtes-d’Armor), to demand the classification of Brittany in “tense zone”.
Between 350, according to the prefecture, and 500 people, according to the organizers, marched through Douarnenez. They were a hundred Concarneau and about 400 Vannes, according to the prefectures of Finistre and Morbihan.
Some demonstrators carried Sea View signs for the precarious or What would I do without a roof?, according to an AFP photographer.
We want the application of the extended zone device to the cities which claim it (…) in order to unlock several public levers to produce affordable housing, explained AFP Maxime Sorin, member of the collective Droit la ville Douarnenez.
The classification as an extended zone, granted by decree, allows the municipalities in particular to impose additional taxation on vacant housing and secondary residences, a regulation of short-term tourist rentals and a framework for rents.
No municipality in Brittany is placed in an extended area, crystallized the discontent. Elected officials and citizens are helpless in the face of real estate speculative madness. (…) Local buyers can no longer follow, reacted Gal Roblin, member of the Costa Rican collective Tregor Argoat Goelo Zone Tendue.
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To explain the phenomenon, this opposition municipal councilor Guingamp (Ctes-d’Armor) cites the proliferation of second homes, which accelerated during the Covid, the moves of residents from Rennes, Nantes and the Paris region, with significant purchasing power, as well as the development of short-term rentals.
Coastal workers are therefore pushed very far inland, with excessive travel times, estimated Mr. Roblin.