Unattainable deadlines to put an end to thermal strainers?
This is what the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of housing, Jacques Baudrier, points out.
In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister this Thursday, the elected communist asked the government that the timetable provided for by the Climate and Resilience law to prohibit the rental of thermal strainers be reviewed.
Coming into force in 2021, the Climate and Resilience law has allowed, since January 1, 2023, the ban on the rental of category G+ housing.
From January 1, 2025, it also plans to prohibit the rental of category G housing. Housing classified F and E must respectively be prohibited in 2028 and 2034. According to the city of Paris, the deadline for housing classified G arrives too quickly.
“In fact, the timetable is too short for all the co-owners involved in the renovation process to have completed their work before January 1, 2025,” asserts Jacques Baudrier in his letter to Gabriel Attal, which Le Monde initially revealed.
Instead, the municipality would like category G housing to be considered decent until January 1, 2028, provided that the co-ownership has voted, before January 1, 2026, a multi-year work plan with a work schedule allowing the housing to achieve the required level of performance on January 1, 2028.
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“As per the current schedule, the work should be completed by the end of the year.
For this, the co-owners would have had to start these renovations four or five years ago.
However, at that time, the law had not yet come into force.
Even for good students who immediately started their work, the schedule is not tenable,” argues the elected official to Le Parisien.
“If we do not propose a timetable that supports the co-owners, I am afraid that they will give up carrying out the renovation work,” he continues.
Potential loss of 60,000 homes
While Paris has been experiencing a major housing crisis for several years, the current schedule could impact the rental market.
“Very concretely, this implies that potentially 60,000 housing units in Paris and 170,000 housing units in Île-de-France could be withdrawn from the private rental market,” warns the deputy in his letter to Gabriel Attal.
The elected communist, on the other hand, wants his proposal not to be put in the same basket as those formulated on the right of the political spectrum: “I am for renovation and for ecological transition.
But for the housing to be renovated, the co-owners must be given a feasible timetable.
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Last September, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire mentioned a possible postponement of the ban on the rental of housing considered to be “thermal sieves”.
More recently, in January, it was the turn of Édouard Philippe (Horizons) to point out the ban on rentals.