Creation of a citizen collective to impose regulation of furnished tourist accommodation

Created in April, this coordination brings together around twenty local collectives throughout the territory and intends to become a privileged interlocutor of the government to regulate furnished tourist accommodation.

"Everyone must be able to live where they want in housing that meets their needs and is accessible to their means (...) A territory is not a commodity", declared Franck Rolland, co-president of the collective and representative of " Saint-Malo I live there... I stay there!

Exodus of inhabitants, closure of small shops, school classes, lack of manpower, ghost towns out of season... The members of the collective have listed the different effects of "overtourism" in the areas that concentrate the most furnished tourist accommodation.

"In my street, it can be estimated that half of the buildings are occupied by Airbnbs, and in the old town, 23 buildings have been declared at risk because they have not been maintained. It is not an owner from Airbnb which is redoing the roof", described Brigitte Cottet, member of the Association of residents of the old town of Annecy.

"Over time, everyone realized that beyond the nuisances they were experiencing in their place of living, their neighborhood, their street were changing, their son could not find student accommodation, people were meeting alone in buildings and (...) that the housing crisis now concerned the middle class", added Mr. Rolland who denounces a "speculative bubble" of LCDs.

The creation of this collective comes a week after the announcement of the postponement of a transpartisan law proposal to regulate tourist rentals.

"The more Airbnb there are, the more people there are, the more jobs it creates. There is this ideological framework there", commented Mr. Rolland, for whom the ball is now "in the camp of the government".

Among the demands, the coordination calls for the extension of the number of municipalities classified as tight zones to allow regulatory measures such as quotas or compensation at the inter-municipal level. She also asks for "reverse taxation in favor of people who rent year-round".

The collective also intends to demonstrate that the response to the housing crisis does not lie solely in construction but also in increasing the share of main residences in the housing stock of municipalities.