The implementation of rent control is accelerating.
After Paris and Lille, the four metropolises of Bordeaux, Lyon (including Villeurbanne), Grenoble and Montpellier, as well as "several inter-municipal authorities in the Paris region" have "applied" to regulate rents, announces the Minister-Delegate for Housing Emmanuelle Wargon .
Marseille and Toulouse, "who had indicated their intention to do so, have given up and I regret it" declared the minister in an interview with the daily Les Echos dated Tuesday, the day after the application deadline for volunteer cities. to this device scheduled until 2023.
Support the housing supply
In Ile-de-France, the inter-municipal authorities which have submitted a file are those of Plaine commune, "in the process of being validated first", but also eleven municipalities of Grand Orly Seine Bièvre, as well as the city of Grigny located in the inter-municipality Grand Paris Sud Seine Essonne Sénart.
"This device will not alone solve the housing problem" warns the minister: "The municipalities that want to regulate their rents will also have to be voluntary in the construction of housing", she assures.
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Targeting cities "whose mayors are often environmentalists" such as "Bordeaux, Annecy", where "building permits are struggling to come out", Emmanuelle Wargon believes that the regulation of rents "can not be the alibi of housing construction at half mast ”.
"The State is doing its part to support the supply of housing: we have created assistance for building mayors, a fund for the rehabilitation of brownfields," she recalls.
Facilitate construction
The simplification and dematerialization of town planning procedures should be implemented from "June 2021", underlines the Minister, that is to say earlier than provided for by law (January 2022), which should make it possible to promote construction.
It also stresses that a decree, examined by the national council for the evaluation of standards, will allow in the future "to carry out work on existing buildings without having to apply for a building permit".
“Below a certain threshold of square meters, a prior declaration will suffice, on condition that it is made by an architect” specifies Emmanuelle Wargon.
"This decree also exempts from authorization to construct certain temporary buildings such as those intended for emergency accommodation" adds the Minister.
