Candidate for mayor of Paris with "Parisiennes, Parisiens", Gaspard Gantzer defends the idea of ​​a fictitious rent that would pay the owners of vacant housing for at least a year. On Europe 1, Tuesday morning, he argues that this manna would be used to build housing, to curb the very high prices of real estate in the capital.

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How to curb rising real estate prices in Paris? For Gaspard Gantzer, this "scourge" can only be solved with the construction and renovation of housing in the capital, which he seeks the mayor next spring. On Europe 1, Tuesday morning, the candidate of the list "Parisians, Parisians" defends for the municipalities of March 2020 the idea of ​​a "fictitious rent" paid by the owners of vacant housing with, as a theoretical consequence, a "shock offer "to lower intramural prices.

1,500 euros for a 50m2

"Today, 10% of housing is vacant in Paris, it is unacceptable," says the former communications advisor François Hollande during the previous five years, which refers to "more than 100,000 properties" in this case. "One of the solutions is to ask the owners who do not occupy their home for more than a year to pay a fictitious rent, the amount of the market, or 30 euros per square meter." For an unoccupied dwelling of 50 square meters, an owner would pay 1,500 euros per month.

" There will be a supply shock and we will be able to contain real estate prices in Paris "

"We could use this rent for the construction of housing, the renovation of housing and student residences," continues the candidate at the microphone Matthieu Belliard. "It's an incentive to allow everyone to choose between contributing to the community for general interest operations and putting their property back on the market." There will be a supply shock and real estate prices will be held back. Paris, "he anticipates.