While the sector is going through an acute crisis, Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal are making a 180-degree turn, propelling Renaissance MP Guillaume Kasbarian, 36, to the head of a ministry responsible for relaunching the real estate machine.
They have chosen a clearly liberal profile, economically speaking.
Gone is the era of Housing Ministers from the left (Patrice Vergriete, Olivier Klein).
The elected official from Eure-et-Loir stood out at the head of the Economic Affairs Committee for his outspokenness, his knowledge of the issues and his decisive battles.
Appointed this Thursday as Deputy Minister for Housing, this former industrial strategy consultant is the author of a proposed anti-squatter law, which considerably toughens the sanctions (multiplied by three).
This text voted by the majority, the right and the extreme right, and promulgated last August, had aroused the ire of the Insoumis denouncing “a factory of homeless people” and of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation.
Guillaume Kasbarian also pushed for administrative simplification measures and looked into the taxation of Airbnb rentals and degraded co-ownerships.
“A “supply shock”
In his post, this native of Marseille of Armenian origin – very committed to the defense of this country in conflict with Azerbaijan – will have a lot to do.
Gabriel Attal wants a “supply shock” and the adoption of two strong measures: entrusting the allocation of social housing to mayors for new construction.
And modify the SRU law, which sets an obligation of 25% social housing per municipality.
The idea supported by the Prime Minister, announced in his general policy declaration, is to include intermediate housing, reserved for certain categories of households, in the HLM quotas.
A gesture towards the middle classes.
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Installed in a small town 20 km from Chartres, the elected official was also opposed to the proposal defended by the ecologist Julien Bayou to repaint the roofs white to reduce housing temperatures during heatwave periods, moreover more frequent, by reflecting part of the sun's rays.
“We are not in Greece, in the Cyclades, we are not going to repaint everything white,” said Guillaume Kasbarian, deeming this measure inapplicable.
He then cited the example of his own home: a traditional thatched roof house.