Rent control extended to four cities and Ile-de-France

Rent regulation extended to four metropolises and Ile-de-France (Illustration) -

There had been Paris and Lille.

They will now be supported by the four metropolitan areas of Bordeaux, Lyon (including Villeurbanne), Grenoble and Montpellier, as well as “several inter-municipal authorities in the Paris region”, which “applied” to regulate rents, announces the Minister for Housing Emmanuelle Wargon.

Marseille and Toulouse, "who had indicated their intention to do so, have given up and I regret it" declared the minister in an interview with the daily

dated Tuesday, the day after the application deadline for volunteer cities. to this device scheduled until 2023.

Grigny among the Ile-de-France intercommunalities

In Ile-de-France, the inter-municipal authorities which have submitted a file are those of Plaine commune, "in the process of being validated first", but also eleven municipalities of Grand Orly Seine Bièvre, as well as the city of Grigny located in the inter-municipality Grand Paris Sud Seine Essonne Sénart.

“This device will not by itself solve the housing problem, warns the minister: The municipalities that want to regulate their rents will also have to be voluntary in the construction of housing.

"Targeting cities" whose mayors are often environmentalists "such as" Bordeaux, Annecy ", where" building permits are difficult to come out ", Emmanuelle Wargon believes that the regulation of rents" cannot be the alibi of 'housing construction at half mast'.

Bordeaux

Housing: Why Bordeaux is ultimately the only city in the metropolis to file a rental regulation request

Marseilles

Marseille: Why the rent regulation will not be tested (even if the city council is debating it anyway)

• Languedoc-Roussillon

• Aquitaine

• Montpellier

• Lyon

• Grenoble

• Villeurbanne