Climate law: 75,000 housing units will have to be renovated by 2034 in the Rhône

They agree on the need to renovate homes to make them less energy-efficient, but they want “reconsider“the calendar. The United, the union of real estate unions, launched this week in Lyon, an awareness campaign with its network to inform and support co-owners.

According to his calculations, these are more than 3 million homes which will have to be renovated by 2034, as required by the climate law, adopted Tuesday, May 4, at first reading in the National Assembly. In the Rhône, it is estimated that 75,000 housing units are concerned, ie 10% of the private rental stock.

The bill provides that the most energy-intensive housing (consumption greater than 450kWh / m² / year of final energy) can no longer be rented from 2023. In 2028, these are dwellings with a DPE classified G or F which will be prohibited for rental.

Finally, in 2034, homes classified E will in turn be. This, in total, represents more than 3 million housing units in the French private rental stock.

Lack of housing and the parallel market

Danielle Dubrac, president of the Uni, evokes a ” unrealistic horizon” that can “endanger the medium-term housing conditions of more than 5 million French people“. She pleads for additional aid to encourage owners to embark on work:”if we cannot do this renovation, we will no longer be able to rent to tenants whose main residence is“.

Another fear is that of seeing the emergence of a parallel market. “Today you have a good number of owners who are not managed by anyone and who can rent property out of the blue“, warns Patrick Lozano, president of the Uni-Lyon-Rhône.

74 million euros

In the metropolis of Lyon, the new green majority voted a budget of 74 million euros over 5 years with the ambition to renovate 200,000 homes by 2030. This makes an average of 22,000 homes renovated per year, however, only 15,600 have been registered since 2015, as part of the Ecoréno’v.

The text of the bill will be examined in the Senate during the month of June.

– .