What if rent controls were not limited only to voluntary municipalities, as is currently the case? In any case, this is what Jacques Baudrier, deputy (PCF) to the mayor of Paris in charge of housing, called for on the morning show of BFM Île-de-France, this Tuesday morning.
While the system, which has existed in the capital since 2019, must see its experiment end in November 2026, the deputy wants to see it continue. Anne Hidalgo and several left-wing mayors also signed an article in Le Monde on Monday January 13 to this effect.
But above all, his housing deputy wants to expand the scope of municipalities that use rent control. “Our priority is that rent control affects all tense areas, where rents exceed,” says Jacques Baudrier.
In Île-de-France, after Paris, other communities have applied the system, namely Plaine-Commune (Aubervilliers, Épinay-sur-Seine, L'Île-Saint-Denis, La Courneuve, Pierrefitte, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen, Stains and Villetaneuse) and Est Ensemble (Bagnolet, Bobigny, Bondy, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Les Lilas, Montreuil, Noisy-le-Sec, Pantin, Romainville).
In 2024, a study commissioned by the City of Paris showed that rent control had made it possible to limit the total increase in rents by 4.2%. Results on which the defenders of the system rely to ask to make it sustainable beyond 2026. “This will be done from the moment a bill is definitively voted on. It is up to the government to take this initiative. But I note that more and more players are demonstrating that rent control makes it possible to reduce the increase (global),” emphasizes Jacques Baudrier.
