Capping the rise in rents: an extension on the menu of the Assembly next Wednesday

The agenda for the sessions was completed on Wednesday by this text, submitted by the Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons groups in order to "protect the purchasing power of families, craftsmen and traders".

In the summer of 2022, a "rent shield" was introduced for households, with a cap on the variation of the reference rent index (IRL) at 3,5% from July 2022 to June 2023. law plans to extend this deadline to the end of the first quarter of 2024.

The text also aims to maintain until the same term the 3,5% capping mechanism for the commercial rent index, for the benefit of small and medium-sized businesses.

Six trade federations had notably asked the government and parliamentarians last March for this extension for VSEs and SMEs, and also for a generalization of the system to large companies.

"While rents represent on average more than 25% of the family budget and an increasingly heavy share of the expenses of VSEs-SMEs, the presidential majority is still there to limit the effects of inflation", argued in a press release Aurore Bergé, Jean-Paul Mattei and Laurent Marcangeli, leaders of the Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons deputies respectively.