will the work carried out in the face of heat waves soon be eligible?

The Minister Delegate for Housing, Patrice Vergriete, said on Thursday that he was in favor of housing renovation aid also taking into account their protection against heat waves.

I think what needs to change is to integrate this problem of heat waves into the adaptation of housing, said the minister on France Inter.

Summer comfort is still very little taken into account in housing regulations. The only binding standards concern new constructions authorized since January 2022.

In France, MaPrimeRnov’, the government’s flagship scheme for aiding energy renovation, only finances work aimed at better protecting housing against the cold. In some overseas communities, on the other hand, the installation of overroofs or ventilated cladding, or solar water heaters, can be covered.

If we widened these devices?

If we widened these devices? If we relied on the experience of overseas to generalize it to metropolitan France? I am rather in favor of it, said the minister.

Heat waves like the one that France is currently going through, with another 17 departments placed on red alert on Thursday, will multiply and intensify with global warming.

Work on a device that will mobilize professional investors on rental investment

To relaunch new construction, which has been in crisis for several months, Patrice Vergriete said he was working on a system that will make it possible to mobilize professional investors on rental investment.

Promoters and builders are concerned about the announced abolition of the Pinel tax niche and the refocusing of the zero rate loan, which favored private investment in real estate. The private investor, when he invests in housing, he first seeks the tax advantage, and he does not necessarily look at the quality of the housing and where it is located, justified Patrice Vergriete, judging that helping professional investors would take more.

He also announced a decree for mid-September which will allow more towns, tourist towns, towns today which are industrialising, to be able to develop more intermediate housing, at regulated rents but higher than in public housing.