2023-10-13 12:09:59
The “housing platform”, bringing together several associations and unions including the CSC and the FGTB, mobilized on Friday in Brussels to denounce the end of the measure limiting the indexation of rents for energy-intensive housing. The measure, in force for a year, will end on October 14, allowing landlords to index rents once more.
From 1 p.m., nearly forty people, among other members of the housing platform, gathered at Place Saint-Jean, in Brussels. “Dark Friday for housing”, we might read on a sign.
This measure, taken on October 14, 2022 by the Brussels government in the context of the energy crisis, aimed to limit for a period of one year the possibility of indexing the rent of energy-intensive properties according to the Energy Performance of the Building (PEB). ).
“Sadly symbolic”
“The end of the limitation of indexation seems sadly symbolic to us, because it marks the exhaustion of hopes of seeing the birth of measures that truly protect tenants. However, there have been several normative projects in this area under this legislature (indicative rent grid, joint rental commission, reform of the lease ordinance, etc.), but they have often been abandoned or too largely emptied of their initial ambitions” , regretted the lawyer of the FéBUL association and member of the housing platform Romane Berns.
“We hope at most that, given the current cost of living, the partners of the majority will agree on a mechanism to prevent last year’s indexation from being caught up,” she said. added. The platform also calls for a control of Brussels rent prices and particularly a ban on indexing energy sieves, for the creation of more social housing, and for the effective establishment of the Joint Rental Commission.
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