We could have been preparing for it for a few years, more precisely since the passage of the Climate and Resilience Law of 2021. Since the start of 2025, all accommodation classified G in the DPEi.e. the most energy-consuming, are not no longer eligible for rental. A ban that still affects 15% of Parisian housing availableand who could well increase tensions a little more in the race for apartments.
Increasingly severe levels
Last year, the G+ accommodation (those even worse than the G, without us taking the trouble to add a letter to the scale) were already passed under the law. This year, it’s the Gs, now judged unsanitary and indecent, who became inlouables. A restriction that applies to all apartments looking for tenantsbut also to all lease renewals.
And if it's bad news for owners as for those who looking for an inexpensive roofit is rather a good news for the planet. The country does not intend to stop there, since, still according to this law, the housing classified F will suffer the same fate in 2028, and those classified E have until 2034 to make up his mind. A situation a little dramatic which is unlikely to improve the housing crisis and in the face of which there is no only one solution: do some work.
Owners lacking motivation
So that these 50,000 housing units can find their way back to the Parisian rental stock, there is only one way: that of energy renovation. But here it is, to believe the National Union of Real Estate Owners (UNPI), half of the owners do not have no intention to do work in 2025. Some are waiting to see, others are considering selling, just to pass on the hot potato to someone else.
At the same time, when we know that the work may require up to €50,000 in costswe can understand it. Yet, the state as well as Paris City Hall have set up a certain number of financial aidsin order to help and motivate owners. And so close 2000 housing units were thus renovated in 2024with an objective of 14,000 within three yearsunfortunately it mainly concerns housings D or Emuch less expensive to bring up to standard. This is news that are not likely to help our affairs…
