Until now, only Paris and Lille had capped rents.
From 2022, the system will be extended to three new cities: Bordeaux, Montpellier and Lyon (including Villeurbanne).
The city and metropolis of Bordeaux were delighted with the news on social networks.
A highly anticipated device in a territory facing "the difficulties of access to housing and the speculative real estate boom", as the city explains in a press release.
[Press release] Rent regulation: Emmanuelle Wargon validates Bordeaux's candidacy https://t.co/j9Zm8k44lm #BxMetro
- Bordeaux Métropole (@BxMetro) September 3, 2021
The Minister of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, validated the city's candidacy for the implementation of this device, provided for by the Elan law (evolution of housing, development and digital) of 2018.
It remains to determine the affected areas
Bordeaux and its agglomeration are experiencing “sharp increases in property prices and very high rental pressure.
Bordeaux in particular has been classed, for a few years, among the most expensive cities in France, ”according to the press release.
The “real estate market has deteriorated with in particular an ever greater decorrelation between constantly increasing prices and the resources of households which are not increasing (…) For the same rent, the inhabitants have lost an average of 18 m2 in 4 years” , add the communities.
In Lyon, Bruno Bernard, EELV president of the Métropole de Lyon, mentioned on Twitter “one tool among others that will help us control the cost of rents, in particular for small areas”.
The application of the metropolis @grandlyon for the regulation of rents in Lyon and Villeurbanne was selected.
One tool among others that will help us control the cost of rents, in particular for small areas. @ RenaudPayre @EmmWargon https://t.co/yNjhR3rmrH
- Bruno Bernard (@brunobernard_fr) September 3, 2021
The socialist mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, also welcomed this decision in a press release.
“Rent prices in the private sector have soared and the most modest are struggling to stay in the heart of the Metropolis.
It is not acceptable, ”he said.
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Studies will still have to determine the zones concerned before a prefectural decree specifying the amount of a median rent for each zone, in the second half of 2022.
The rental framework has been in effect since 2015 in Paris (with a one-year interruption), as well as in Lille and in the cities of Seine-Saint-Denis.
It applies in areas of more than 50,000 inhabitants "where there is a marked imbalance between housing supply and demand".
It prohibits landlords from asking tenants for an amount greater than a given sum, which varies from district to district depending on the state of the market.
Other cities had also applied last November to benefit from the device, which was refused. Among them, Grenoble, but also in Île-de-France the city of Grigny and eleven municipalities of Grand Orly Seine Bièvre.