The ban on renting thermal strainers from 2025 cannot apply, senators warn in a document published Tuesday, deeming it “inevitable” to push it back to 2028.
It is now obvious that the timetable of the Climate and Resilience Law cannot be met and poses a significant risk of exit from the market of around 18% of rental housingwrite Dominique Estrosi-Sassone (LR), Viviane Artigalas (PS) and Amel Gacquerre (UDI) in an inventory of proposals resulting from their information mission on the housing crisis.
Without abandoning our ambitions in terms of renovation, it seems inevitable to postpone 2028 the ban on signing or renewing leases for energy label G housing, the worst (8% of the French stock), instead of 2025 as currently planned, they add. Under current conditions, housing classified F (10.5% of the stock) will no longer be able to be rented from 2028 and E (22.4% of the stock) in 2034.
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The parliamentarians take up the demands of employers’ organizations, for whom the entry into force of these measures risks reducing available housing andfurther worsen the housing crisis.
In their battery of recommendations, they also call for return to numerous savings measures supported by Bercysuch as the refocusing of the zero-rate loan, which they are, on the contrary, calling for to be strengthened.
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L’exemption from inheritance tax on purchases of new homesdemand of the Federation of Real Estate Developers (FPI), is also suggested as an urgent measure to revive sluggish production.
Some of the proposals are contained in texts to be examined soon in Parliament, such as the simplification of the rules for transforming offices into housing, or the reform of rental taxation to create a private landlord status. The increased possibility for mayors to regulate tourist accommodation such as Airbnb, or that of allocating social housing more freely, are also in the pipeline.
The parliamentarians also demand a exceptional financing from social landlords in order to relaunch HLM production, denouncing the cuts to their financing under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron.
The reform of the rules of the High Council for Financial Stability (HCSF), proposed in the report to encourage the granting of real estate loans, was buried on Tuesday in the Assembly in the face of reluctance from Bercy.
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