in Paris, 50,000 thermal strainers banned from rental in 2025

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Concerns are high on all sides. As of this Wednesday, January 1, 2025, energy-intensive housing rated G are prohibited for rental. The measure, which is part of the Climate and Resilience Law of 2021, worries the City of Paris and the National Real Estate Federation of Greater Paris (FNAIM). They fear the development of illegal rentals and the increase in la tension locative.

According to the Ministry of Housing, this rental ban applies “to new rental contracts and at the time of renewal or tacit renewal” of current leases. In Paris, there are nearly 50,000 homes registered in category G to the energy performance diagnosis (DPE). Or a little more than 15% of the rental stock, according to the Ecological Transition Agency (ADEME). “Categories F and G are the most important in the private rental stock in Paris. These are often small buildings and small housing,” specifies Jacques Baudrier, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of housing and ecological transition.

Help to support help

Since last year, G + housing has been subject to the law. They can no longer be rented because considered indecent. The measure adopted three years ago is intended to be progressive and attacks category G for this new year before moving to F by 2028 then to E in 2034.

Ordered to carry out work worth up to 50,000 euros, the co-owners are eligible for financial support. With the National Housing Agency (Anah), the State offers a helping hand that the City of Paris is striving to strengthen. “For eight years, we have been providing assistance to support them […]. It is the largest in France», underlines Jacques Baudrier. No less than 200 million euros per year are budgeted by Paris City Hall, “the biggest financial arbitration in the City”.

The system made it possible to finance part of the work on more than 2,000 Parisian housing units in 2024. The number should increase to 5,000 next year before reaching 14,000 within three years . Despite this aid, “the co-owners of housing in categories F and G do not commit because it represents too high a cost”, regrets Jacques Baudrier who notes on the other hand the numerous requests concerning properties classified D and E.
The work is less extensive for the latter, therefore less expensive. “Government policy lacks coherence. There is not enough aid to end the thermal strainers », breathes the elected official who also asks for consideration of single-properties, excluded from the list of aid beneficiaries.

There is an urgent need for the Anah system to evolve. On the one hand, to increase the level of aid intended for categories F and G. On the other hand, to open it up to single-ownerships.

Meeting with the minister

According to a survey by the National Union of Real Estate Owners (UNPI), carried out in June 2024, half of the owners of France did not intend to do any work by 2025. 45% indicated that they were waiting to see and 35% were considering selling their property.

“Many housing units already rented will leave the long-term private rental stock. This will increase rental tensionalready unbearable and will further aggravate the difficulties of finding accommodation in Île-de-France,” warns Olivier Princivalle, president of FNAIM du Grand Paris, in a press release. And added: “We are not asking to put an end to the dynamic driven by the energy improvement of the real estate stock, it is necessary. We only hope that the timetable is better adapted, more progressive and above all more consistent with the means and tools made available to landlords. »

In January 2024, Jacques Baudrier wrote to the then Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, to demand flexibility on the schedulerental ban. A bill must be debated in the National Assembly to move in this direction. “This will remain a marginal development,” already sees the deputy mayor of Paris who also spoke, last November, with members of the cabinet of the Minister responsible for Housing, Valérie Létard. Despite the appointment of a new government in the meantime, she remained in her post. Enough to facilitate the resumption of contact between the two political leaders dedicated to housing. At least that’s what the local elected official expects.

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