Housing, Fabien Roussel
Rent controls: Organised reduction and tighter regulation of public and private rents
Direction of change: increase, 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.
« Nous défendons une baisse organisée et une régulation renforcée des loyers publics et privés et des APL revalorisées. »1Translation by the editorsWe stand for an organised reduction and tighter regulation of public and private rents, and uprated APL.
PCF, « Congrès Hlm de Bordeaux du 22 au 24 septembre 2026 » (déclaration), 22 September 2026. Position taken from a document of the candidate’s party or movement, not from a presidential programme.
No programme released. Positions taken from public statements, words of associates or documents of the candidate’s party, each dated and sourced; last recorded on 18 October 2026.
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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.
- PCF, « Congrès Hlm de Bordeaux du 22 au 24 septembre 2026 » (déclaration), 22 September 2026. Position taken from a document of the candidate’s party or movement, not from a presidential programme. Read the source (PCF, « Congrès Hlm de Bordeaux du 22 au 24 septembre 2026 » (déclaration)).
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