The bill passed the stage of the joint committee (CMP), the last before the votes for the final adoption of the bill, scheduled for November 5 in the Senate and November 7 in the National Assembly.
The Minister of Housing and Urban Renewal Valérie Létard said on “.
The socialist deputy Emmanuel Grégoire also welcomed the outcome of a “subject eagerly awaited by local authorities, in particular those which suffer from the effects of overtourism and the dispossession effect on housing”.
If the key measure of this text is a change in taxation, in order to reduce the advantages granted to the rental of furnished tourist accommodation compared to the rental of residential accommodation, it also contains several measures intended for local elected officials.
“All municipalities will thus be able to set up quotas for furnished tourist accommodation.” et “designate areas reserved for the construction of primary residences“, explained the two deputies at the origin of the text Annaïg Le Meur (Renaissance) and Iñaki Echaniz (PS), in a press release released on Monday.
“A very nice step forward” for Ian Brossat, communist senator and advisor to Paris town hall.
According to the text of the CMP, the creation of zones reserved for main residences in the local town planning plan (PLU) may concern municipalities with more than 20% secondary residences and those in tense areas.
In Paris, a ban on new furnished tourist rentals in Montmartre, in the Marais and around the Eiffel Tower is planned in the next PLU, which will be voted on in mid-November, according to Mr. Brossat.
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To better control these rentals and ensure that they remain on track, a registration number for all furnished accommodation (main and secondary residence) will now be systematically necessary.
And in the case of main residences, proof of address will be requested, compared to a simple sworn certificate at present.
“In Paris, you are not allowed to rent your second home on Airbnb“, but from the owners”fraudulently check main residence“, assure Ian Brossat.
The text of the CMP then provides for the “possibility for municipalities to lower the maximum number of days of tourist rentals for main residences” to between 120 and 90 days, “to avoid abuse”.
Christophe Bouillon, mayor of Barentin (Seine-Maritime) and president of the Association of Small Towns of France, greets “the objective of territorial regulation” which puts tools in “the hands of mayors” without imposing itself on the entire territory.
For him, “we should not consider that there are only metropolises and tense areas in France, there are many places where there was no hotel offer and this has made it possible to strengthen the tourist vocation of our territories”.
In all municipalities, the creation of new accommodation for furnished tourist rental will be subject to authorization for change of use, if residential accommodation becomes accommodation for commercial use.
Sylvain Grataloup, president of the National Union of Real Estate Owners, deplores for his part that “new regulations“increase”the obligations of owners even though elected officials already have effective legislative or regulatory mechanisms“.
For him, “this text will not solve the current housing crisis“.
The owner of accommodation rented for tourist purposes must also inform his co-ownership trustee who may decide in his regulations whether or not to prohibit the rental of furnished tourist accommodation.
