Housing, Bruno Retailleau
Rent controls: Abolish rent controls
Direction of change: abolition of a scheme, compared with current law.
The lever. Capping of rents in certain cities: extension, maintenance or abolition of the scheme. Direction rule: ↑ wider or stricter rent controls.
« Supprimer les dispositifs d'encadrement des loyers issus de la loi ELAN, abroger les mécanismes de plafonnement prévus par la loi de 1989, et laisser le loyer librement fixé entre le bailleur et le locataire lors de la signature du bail, comme dans la majorité des marchés européens. »1Translation by the editorsAbolish the rent control schemes stemming from the ELAN law, repeal the capping mechanisms provided for by the 1989 law, and let the rent be freely set between landlord and tenant when the lease is signed, as in the majority of European markets.
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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Trial under the ELAN act (article 140), extended by the 3DS act, in volunteer municipalities in high-pressure housing areas (Paris, Lille, Lyon, etc.).
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. No direct budgetary effect. An indirect effect on housing benefit (APL) exists (lower rents, hence lower APL) but is not costed here.
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- avecretailleau.fr, mesure n° 68 « Supprimer l'encadrement des loyers ». Read the programme page.
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