The wishes of the President of the Republic on the evening of the last day of 2025 were perfect. A lucid analysis of the troubles in the world and in our country, and a powerful incantation in favor of national unity, within the nation and between those who govern France, first of all to provide it with a budget.
Several major causes were cited by the Head of State, the fight against climate change, food sovereignty thanks to our farmers, end-of-life assistance, and others. Nothing about accommodation. Let’s say that it was implicit, or subliminal: he spoke of solidarity and aid to the most vulnerable, and among all the protections that the State owes to citizens, housing comes first. We must be clear: the household situation regarding housing is very degraded and the uncertainty linked to the absence of a finance bill for 2026 adds to it.
Unglamorous results and political divisions
The time is no longer for incantation. If Emmanuel Macron thinks about his record, he is experiencing his last real opportunity to deserve housing… which to this day appears to be a terrible failure of his policy. More precisely, the subject was not addressed and the overhaul promised by the President never took place: in its place, deletions and alterations of existing systems, which worked year after year, and ever more numerous civil and fiscal constraints. An inglorious record with no internal logic.
The budgetary debate will reveal, with the country’s back to the wall, whether the political groups are capable of unity for the housing of the French, by confirming the expanded and extended zero-rate loan, by finally voting for the amortization of new and existing rental housing with work, accompanied by variable rates depending on the rent, and a sufficient MaPrimeRénov envelope so that the environmental performance of the residential stock improves substantially without delay.
Waiting for building mayors
Beyond parliamentarians, deputies and senators, and the government, it is another category of elected officials who will have to provide proof of their attachment to housing, the mayors. We will choose them or renew their mandate next March. More than ever, municipal councilors will be expected to be buildersthat they want to densify existing buildings, that they promote the reduction of unsanitary housing and that they find accommodation solutions for the homeless.
Two deadlines therefore to rewrite history and bring housing into the software of the political class, from which it has largely come out in recent years. We will be careful not to put all political leaders in the same basket: those who resisted and did not give in to the spirit of the times – to use the expression of President Macron during his wishes, he who wants France not to give in…
Securing and supporting markets
On the other hand, the housing sector must precisely distinguish the decision-makers who have remained its constant defenders, members of the legislative body or the national and local executives, and not sink into poujadism and the shortcut of “all rotten“. In short, what housing needs is reciprocal inclusion. He must become one again major concern of public officials, to release energies, simplify, secure and support the markets, and the women and men of real estate must reassess the political class, measuring that its budgetary room for maneuver has been reduced as it were, and its role has evolved.
This reconciliation is vital for both parties. This is what is at stake in these first months of 2026.
