2023-05-16 05:00:00
Announced by Housing Minister Olivier Klein in October, this essential measure has not been followed up. Parliamentarians are stepping up.
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Anannounced by the Minister of Housing in October, the ban on the tourist rental of thermal sieves has still not been followed up. Of course, since 1is January 2023, dwellings that consume more than 450 kilowatt hours per square meter per year are prohibited from being rented in metropolitan France. Under the Climate and Resilience Law of 2021, properties rated F and G in energy performance diagnostics (DPE) will be gradually banned from rental by 2028. But this ban does not apply to properties intended for Airbnb-style rental.
At the beginning of May, three deputies, Julien Bayou (EELV), Christophe Plassard (Horizons) and Iñaki Echaniz (PS), as well as Senator LR Max Brisson therefore presented seven “transpartisan” proposals to further regulate these rentals, including that of prohibiting for tourist rental the thermal colanders.
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Julien Bayou sees in the current situation a form of “push-to-crime”. “You are told: “If you rent in Airbnb, it will be more lucrative, you will be less taxed, and you can even rent what you cannot rent in classic””, regrets the deputy for Paris. The former national secretary of Europe Écologie-Les Verts deplores an “incitement to transform permanent accommodation into furnished tourist accommodation”. “The ban on thermal colanders for long-term rentals had not anticipated the fact that an owner who does not wish to do the work has the possibility of transforming his property into furnished accommodation”, underlines Iñaki Echaniz, PS deputy for the Pyrenees-Atlantiques.
A bill will be considered
The Minister Delegate for Cities and Housing Olivier Klein had already promised to extend this ban to furnished tourist accommodation. “It is out of the question that we take refuge behind the ban on re-letting [les passoires thermiques] by transforming his accommodation into furnished tourist accommodation,” he said on BFM Business on October 25.
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But the announcement has so far not been followed up. The Airbnb platform indicates that it has not received any information on this subject from the government. Contacted by Point, the Ministry of Housing indicates that this measure will “necessarily go through a legislative vehicle”. “It cannot be done by decree because furnished tourist accommodation is not governed by the same law, so it does not fall within the framework of the Climate and Resilience law”, we assure the ministry.
The government is content to support the bill to this effect from the PS deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Renaissance deputy from Finistère Annaïg Le Meur, which should be examined in mid-June in the National Assembly. The text conditions in particular the possibility of making tourist rental to the realization of an energy performance diagnosis, on the model of long-term rentals, except derogation.
Meeting at the Ministry of Housing
With this bill, Iñaki Echaniz intends to “put long-term accommodation and furnished tourist accommodation on an equal footing. “Our desire is that there is no flight from conventional housing to short-term housing”, adds Annaïg Le Meur. The co-rapporteur of the text highlights an “even greater desire in terms of ecological issues, in particular that of reducing greenhouse gases”.
However, Iñaki Echaniz asserts that the government “might have acted earlier”, for example with a bill. “It might even have passed into a decree,” he says. “The Minister of Housing knows his subject but has not yet taken action”, he says, considering more generally that the question of housing is “the great forgotten of the last five-year term and of this beginning of the five-year term” . Latest example to date: the conclusions of the Housing component of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR), eagerly awaited, were to be returned on May 9, but the restitution was postponed to June 5.
The four parliamentarians behind the seven proposals are due to meet Housing Minister Olivier Klein on May 16. The ban on tourist rentals of thermal colanders will be part of the “flagship requests” of the three deputies and the senator, warns Julien Bayou.
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