“In five and a half years, I have known six housing ministers!”exclaims Olivier Salleron, president of the French Building Federation (FFB), this Wednesday, September 10, during a situation point. And again, Valérie Létard was Minister of Housing in the Governments Barnier and Bayrou, otherwise the sector would be to her seventh minister in less than six years. “A political instability which weighs heavily on the sector »deplores the boss of the FFB, citing in particular “The succession of planer and gels of Maprimerenov ‘»». What he asks the new Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornunamed Tuesday, this is a framework “stable” For the main public help for the energy renovation of housing. This, in place of the incessant “stop and go” which discourage households from undertaking work.
Another complaint of the FFB, a real Private lessor tax statuscapable of relaunching rental investment, or well implemented “From January 1st”as provided for in the finance bill for 2026 drawn up by François Bayrou. Claimed by owners’ associations and real estate professionals for ten years, this status, more “urgent” that never because “You have to find a successor to the Pinel systemAccording to Olivier Salleron, was finally about to see the light of day, carried by Valérie Létard.
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This is why Olivier Salleron urges the new tenant from Matignon to “keep” the minister in the government he is training. “She is aware of the files, she has waged and winning fights against Bercy”as the enlargement of zero -rate loan In the entire territory and individual houses, as well as the temporary exemption from donations for the purchase of new housing or the energy renovation of an existing property, recalls the boss of the FFB.
Relieved “That we have not waited for centuries to appoint a new Prime Minister”he wants to believe that Sébastien Lecornu “Know qualified people to manage our sector”. Former Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition in 2017, ex-minister of local authorities in 2018 then overseas between 2018 and 2020, Sébastien Lecornu is “An intelligent boy who knows politics, territories, adequate peopleit does not come from nowhere “underlines Olivier Salleron. While “Many of our fellow citizens put more than a third of their salary in their housing expenses, it is necessary to relaunch the rental investment with the status of the private lessor”he insists. Especially not doing “Nomination in the short week” to housing, otherwise the ministry risks “Small against Bercy and all those people who did HEC, ENA and Sciences Po in three weeks but who do not know the field”.
