Response of rents: a bill wants to perpetuate it after 2026

MP Danielle Simonnet tabled, Tuesday, June 24, a bill aimed at perpetuating the experimentation of rent supervision. Planned by a 2018 law, this experiment is underway in 69 cities. A mission has just been launched to assess its effectiveness. And determine whether this experiment will end as planned in 2026 or will be extended.

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After speech, acts. MP Danielle Simonnet (Paris, Ecologist and Social) had warned on June 12 that she would table the National Assembly a bill aimed at perpetuating the experiment of theRent supervision. It’s been done since Tuesday, June 24. Provided for by the 2018 Elan law, Experimentation of rent supervision is underway in 69 cities located in a tense area, where the demand for housing is much higher than the supply. This is the case of Paris, Lille, Lyon, Villeurbanne, Montpellier, Bordeaux, inter-municipalities of Seine-Saint-Denis that are a common plain and is together, as well as certain municipalities in the Basque Country.

This experimentation to end in November 2026the Prime Minister launched, on April 7, a mission in order to assess its effectiveness and decide its extension or not. Work that will feed the report On the experimentation of the supervision of rents that the government must give to parliament before May 2026, as the law provides. For its part, the National Assembly Committee of the National Assembly launched its own mission to assess rents, which should make its conclusions in September.

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The supervision of endangered rents?

Already, several local communities and the foundation for the housing of disadvantaged (ex-Father Pierre-Pierre) judge that “”The sustainability of this public policy is today threatenedno prospect of extension being announced to date by the government ”. And for good reason, the assessment mission entrusted by François Bayrou to the academics Gabrielle Fack and Guillaume Chapelle just being worn on the baptismal font.

The mayors of Paris, Lille, Lyon, Annecy and the agglomeration community of the Basque Country nevertheless decided to “Mobilize”, Alongside the foundation for the disadvantaged accommodation, in order to “Perpetuate a tool that has become essential to regulate the rental market”. A tool that “”beneficial effects are today tangible»»they assure. According to a study by the Foundation for the Housing of the disadvantaged published last September, 28 % of the rental announcements do not respect the supervision of rents in the different cities where it is experienced. A figure down 2 points compared to 2023.

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Management of rents, a false good idea?

In Paris, the proportion of advertisements exceeding the Plays rent fixed by prefectural decree, on the other hand, increased, to 30%, against 28% in 2023. The Paris town hall, does not bother, evaluating at 984 euros per yearon average, the economy carried out by the tenants between July 1, 2019, the date of start of the experiment, and June 30, 2024, thanks to the supervision of rents. A device that has enabled Reduce rent by 4.4% On average over the same period, on their side, the cities of Lille, Lyon, Villeurbanne, Bordeaux and Montpellier argue. Not convinced, the new opposition party to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, Union Capitale, composed of elected LR and Horizons, submitted to the Paris Council on June 5 a wish to remove the supervision of rents.

“The management of rents is a false good idea because they continue to represent more than a third of the expenses of Parisian tenants And he aggravates the shortage of housing for rent » discouraging therental investment,, already slowed down by the praise And the gradual ban on the rental of thermal colanders, argued Paul Hatte, an adviser to the 17th arrondissement and member of Union Capital. But the wish of his group was not adopted by the Paris Council, mainly on the left. The town hall also emphasizes that “Rental investment in Paris offers a yield from 3% to 5% According to the district and the number of rooms in the accommodation, which far exceeds the yields offered by regulated savings booklets ”.

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The supervision of rents can stop overnight

MP Danielle Simonnet does not despair that the government is taking over this bill. Otherwise, it could be registered in the parliamentary niche one of the left -wing groups, in the Assembly or in the Senate, or for a transpartisan week in the Assembly, but the next will only take place. In November 2026, “The experiment of the supervision of rents can stop overnight»»insists the parliamentarian.