The Minister Delegate for Housing, Olivier Klein, gave the green light on Tuesday to a rent control in Marseille, strongly desired by the left-wing municipality to fight against housing difficulties in the poorest large city in France.
“I received the file last Thursday” and “I want to say here my agreement that we can regulate rents in Marseille”, declared the minister at the end of the first general assembly of housing in the second city of France, assuring that this request will be “a priority” of his administration.
Rents are already regulated in Paris and in 18 municipalities of Seine-Saint-Denis as well as in Lille, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Lyon and Villeurbanne.
The Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis led by Martine Vassal (LR) has submitted a file which provides for supervision only in the city center of Marseille, and not in the 91 other municipalities of the community, some of which, like Cassis, are popular seaside resorts .
Here she responds favorably to a repeated request from the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan.
The metropolis, she fears that such a measure "will come to seize up the system even more" and in particular construction while Marseille has 40,000 slums and as many requests for social housing pending.
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