Housing measures: the end of an era

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The housing policy ceases to be an open counter to distribute public credits and it is rather a facilitator, which lifts the brakes, decrypts Henry Buzy-Cazaux, founding president of the Institute of Management of Real Estate Services, after the announcements of Minister Valérie Létard in Mipim.

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It was at the Mipim real estate fair in Cannes that the Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, detailed her support and recovery plan for housing. He has breath. If several measures were already known since they were in the budget recently imposed by vote blocked by the government, the professional community discovered the others. For what? Simply because they are not of a budgetary nature, and fall under two fields, the legal field and the practical field. In more ways than one, you have to stop on this observation, behind which are hidden two major realities for the coming years.

First, the 2025 budget allocation for accommodation marks a withdrawal from the 2024 budget in terms of envelope, and this is only the start of a process: the accommodation had to participate in the absorption of the abyssal public deficit and will have to do it in the future even more. The main thing was saved by Valérie Létard, and the accommodation is a priority of the government between all sectors. In this regard, it has pre-empted the 2026 budget by announcing the mission entrusted to Mickaël Cosson and Marc-Philippe Daubresse to build a tax status of the real estate investor and also several measures of the 2025 budget, valid for two, will still impact 2026, such as the PTZ and the exemption from donation rights for the purchase of new housing or the energy renovation Existing, as well as the exclusion of first-time receivers of the increase in transfer duties for consideration. The fact remains that the budget for 2026 will be more frugal than the 2025 budget and that this erosion will not stop in the coming years: the Prime Minister, Sunday March 16 on France Inter, warned opinion … and its ministers.

Private innovation incentive

Above all, the time has come for the executive to favor civil provisions and incentive to private innovation. Valérie Létard’s priorities are mostly chosen from this field: the reduction of the complexity of town planning documents, the invention of new types of development permit, the reduction in appeal times, the extension of two years of the validity of the building permits issued in 2022 and 2023, the simplification of standards, the upcoming bill of Romain Daubié to facilitate the transformation of offices but also Generalize the multi-design permit and the reversibility of use, the future plan to support the transformation of buildings of all destination into housing, the exemption from tax on offices for tertiary surfaces under transformation, all these initiatives do not cost or cost the energies.

The Minister, in the continuity of the ELAN law, also wants artificial intelligence to benefit from construction productivity and lower costs, by allowing the development of digital tools to catalyze procedures, optimize the identification of available land, in particular air, and facilitate the financing of projects. She appointed a referent to her ministry which serves as a relay between the administration and the start-ups specializing in the matter. Valérie Létard also intends to boost developments in production processes, off -site or conversely favoring short circuits with local materials, the recourse increased to bio -based materials …

A modern version of the welfare state

The message is clear: the housing policy ceases to be an open counter to distribute public credits, increasingly rare, and it is rather a facilitator, which lifts the brakes, infinitely too numerous and too tight in our country. It will also be there to enhance professional creativity, where the quantitative approach has ended up making it forget. However, our country knows how to leave the beaten track to build, maintain, manage. A good hearing … The housing sector can count on welcome legal adaptations if not beneficial, often expected for a long time … and on its own resources to innovate and gain in all -round efficiency. In a way “help yourself and the state will help you.” A modern version of the welfare state.