Faced with the current period of inflation, the price of rents is increasing. The benchmark rent index has thus jumped 2.48% since the start of the year and this should continue in the coming months, reaching 5% at the end of the year. In this context, the government is studying measures to limit this increase, but for the moment it is planning to freeze rents.
Current inflation poses problems for household purchasing power. And there is an area in which the consequences are more felt: housing, which is the first expense of the French. In order to limit the increase in rents, the government of Elisabeth Borne is working on measures but it excludes freezing rents, report our colleagues from Capital.
The benchmark rent index on the rise
Since the beginning of 2022, the rent reference index (IRL) has risen by 2.48%, an increase not seen since 2008. However, this is the index on which landlords base themselves to revise rents. rental prices. Specialists estimate that this index will continue to climb to reach 3.6% in July, then 5% by the end of the year.
Several consumer defense associations have proposed to freeze rents from July 1 for 12 months for the private sector and social housing. But the government refuses to do so for the moment.
Various proposals made to the government
A meeting with representatives of social housing, private housing and property rental professionals took place on Wednesday 1 June. During this, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, and the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Amlie de Montchalin, asked them to take part in the effort.
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Some then put the idea of smooth over 6 or 12 months the rise in the benchmark rent indexothers have suggested review the calculation methods of this index in order to extract the energy price component. The Social Union for Housing (USH) has proposed a housing shield. The government will now study these different proposals.