France Ends Winter Eviction Moratorium After Record 2025 Tenant Removals

Overview

• France’s winter eviction moratorium, in place from November 1 to March 31 since 1956, ends Tuesday, which allows evictions to restart nationwide.
• In 2025, 30,500 households were expelled with police assistance, a 27% annual jump, and 175,000 tenants received formal payment orders to settle arrears.
• A 2023 law known as Kasbarian-Bergé now requires tenants in trouble to ask a judge to keep their lease and to have paid the last month of rent, and Paris courts granted fewer payment delays in 2024 than in 2023.
• Housing Minister Vincent Jeanbrun has called for faster removals and pointed to Canadian practices, and the jurist tapped to study rent arrears, Hugues Périnet-Marquet, declined the government mission days after it was announced.
• Advocacy groups report that many evicted people lack stable rehousing for years and say older adults, people in poor health, and single parents with young children are increasingly affected.