Building professionals castigate two amendments relating to PTZ and "Pinel"

First, the extension commitment in 2022 is only respected for the PTZ. Despite repeated assurances, the Pinel would still stop at the end of 2021. While since mid-2017, the sector has suffered a drop in production of nearly 100.000 housing units, the Government would therefore be ready to give up a system that can accommodate 50.000 households per year in tight areas at agreed prices.

Then, the government does not seize the opportunity to strengthen these devices, by boosting the PTZ for young and modest households, in particular in zones B2 and C, or by boosting the Pinel to encourage the mobilization of private savings in favor of new housing. It therefore misses the opportunity to support the construction sector while it remains one of the rare levers of domestic growth.

Finally, the government chooses complexity. The "contemporaneization" of resources would apply to the PTZ, while it has been stumbling for months for the APL. The Pinel rent ceilings would be redefined each year, probably municipality by municipality, to respect the ceiling set by the amendment, without an explanation of the operationality of a rule applicable on ... January 1, 2021!

For the signatories “these provisions do not respond to the emergency, while sales have plunged for months and permits for three years. The fall in construction activity is already certain in 2021. The government's amendments will not prevent it. The implementation of an RE2020 whose impact no one, not even the government, is able to measure today, will even accelerate it. It's a long winter looming for the construction industry. Is the worst of the crisis a good time to weaken mechanisms that have proven their worth? "