Overview
- Co-rapporteurs Annaïg Le Meur and Iñaki Echaniz recommend making the rent-control experiment permanent and opening it to all willing communes in designated tight markets and their neighboring municipalities.
- The scheme, currently applied in 72 collectivités and slated to end in November 2026, would be the subject of a fast-tracked bill informed by a government-commissioned economic evaluation.
- Technical fixes include clarifying how the reference rent is calculated and assigning standardized values to annex surfaces such as terraces, cellars and mezzanines to better frame rent supplements.
- Enforcement proposals call for doubling fines with proceeds paid to communes, requiring platforms to display how listings compare to legal caps and the justification for any supplement, and giving municipalities a council-vote mechanism to exit the scheme.
- Citing APUR, the report notes Paris rents were 8.2% lower than a no-control scenario in July 2023–June 2024, says participating cities report concrete effects, and argues the policy is not driving the broader decline in rental supply.