Rent supervision: local authorities will be able to sanction abuse

The measure, appeared in an amendment to the law “3DS” under discussion at the Assembly came from the ranks of the left, was taken over by the rapporteur of the law and the minister Emmanuelle Wargon.

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The current discussion at the National Assembly on the law “3DS” (for differentiation, decentralization, deconcentration and simplification of public action) reopens the debate on the supervision of rents. Shortly after the cancellation, by administrative justice, Parisian and Lille arrangements, the ELAN Law of 23 November 2018 restored it in the tense areas that request it. Since then, adopted Paris, from the . July 2019; Lille, the 1 er March 2020; The Commune-Commune Agglomeration Community (Seine-Saint-Denis), the 1 e June; Lyon and Villeurbanne, the er November; The agglomeration community is together (Seine-Saint-Denis), the 1 er December; Before Bordeaux and Montpellier current 2022. Either, in total, seven territories covering 24 cities.

The law “3DS” brings some modifications to the mechanism. The municipalities had only two years from the publication of the ELAN law to apply with the prefecture. The new text, if it is voted in the state, will give them two more years, until November 22, 2022. The littoral communes of the Basque Country, for example, where an intense price inflation and therefore rents , intend to take advantage of it to claim their supervision. An approach to which the Minister of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, present Tuesday, December 14, in the hemicycle, assured a favorable welcome, to the great satisfaction of Vincent Bru, MP (modem) of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Another time revised upward: the experimentation of the cap, once established, was planned to last five years, it will last three more.

The regulatory amount of the rent displayed

A surprise innovation, resulting from amendments from the left by the voice of deputies Stéphane little (Communist Party, Seine-Saint-Denis) and Lamia El Aaaje (Socialist Party, Paris), delegate to local authorities the power of To punish themselves the abuse of owners who do not respect the supervision of rents. “The investigation of the Abbé Pierre Foundation shows that 35% of the 8,753 ads studied – among those published between the 1 August 2020 and the 1 er August 2021 – propose Clearly higher rents, of an average of 200 euros, to those allowed, “said M me el Aaaraje. The ELAN law had a good opportunity for sanction by the prefect, a fine of up to 5,000 euros for a natural person, 15 000 euros for a legal person, but for Paris, the prefect of Ile-de- France, seized at 93 times, delivered only ten fines, none of which had exceeded 1,500 euros …

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