The initiative had failed in the assembly, it was taken up by the Senate: the upper room voted this Tuesday 1East April to soften the prohibition to rent the most energy -consuming thermal colanders, with the support of the government. The 2021 climate and resilience law provides for the prohibition for the rental of classified accommodation G on the scale of energy performance diagnosis (DPE) since 1East January 2025.
Parliament does not intend to come back to this ambition, but “however, we must look at real life and take into account the concerns of our fellow citizens,” argued the Minister of Housing Valérie Létard to justify the defense of a bill “much awaited” by certain owners who struggle to carry out renovations.
In France, 5.8 million dwellings were classified F or G on January 1, 2024, or 15.6 % of the rental park, according to a study by the Ministry of Ecological Transition in December 2024
The text thus intends to “respond in an emergency to the real risk of seeing many homes get out of the rental park, which would have damaging consequences in an already particularly tense sector”, supported its centrist author Amel Gacquerre.
His bill, adopted very widely by hand, actually resumes several measures already proposed at the end of January to the National Assembly by the deputies Bastien Marchive (related to the group together for the Republic) and Iñaki Echaniz (Socialist Party). But this text had finally been withdrawn from the debate by its authors after the rejection of its main article, to which the national rally and rebellious France were opposed.
Developments for the benefit of owners
Among the main measures are fittings for the benefit of the owners, who could maintain their thermal hole in rental when the renovation works have been initiated or voted by the condominium. The same softening was voted in the event that the work is impossible “due to technical, architectural or heritage constraints or of costly costly costs compared to the value of the property”.
This will also be worth when the General Assembly of co-ownership opposed this work, a device which crumpled part of the left, the latter fearing to see owners “to hide behind the refusal of the co-ownership union” so as not to start work.
The Senate has also clarified that the obligation of energy decency would only apply to newly concluded leases or to their renewal, and not systematically since 1East January 2025 for current leases. The text is transmitted to the National Assembly, where its outcome promises to be uncertain again.