Housing crisis: PS deputies propose an anti-Airbnb text

On the initiative, the elected representative of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Inaki Echaniz insists on the rental tensions in "the coastal territories" as in his "constituency of the Basque Country and Béarn".

The PS deputy rebounds on recent remarks by the leader of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé before the Abbé Pierre Foundation on the "scourge" of Airbnb: "it is not normal that we have a tax niche which +surplus+ the fact of renting out in tourism", had estimated Ms. Bergé, open to the "removal of the surcharge".

The Socialists want in their bill "to remove a tax gift which creates an inequality between seasonal and long-term rental", explains Inaki Echaniz.

In practice, it would be a question of "excluding furnished tourist accommodation" from a tax reduction scheme provided for the "benefit of the non-professional industrial and commercial micro profits scheme".

An exception would be maintained for "rural lodgings", in an attempt to lift LR's reservations on the issue, the socialists said.

The text also intends to tighten the rental conditions for furnished tourist accommodation, with compulsory registration in a national register. And wants to lower from 120 to 60 the number of rental nights authorized for main residences.

Inaki Echaniz would also like to fight the "growing fraud in mobility leases" in tourist areas, when landlords "impose" leases of nine or ten months on traditional tenants to recover their accommodation in the summer and rent them at a high price on Airbnb. .

The PS deputy finally suggests an additional tax lever in favor of communities in rental tension, by extending the benefit of the housing tax to second homes.

The Socialists have no guarantees at this stage on the inclusion of their text on the agenda of the Assembly, but they claim to seize it during a "transpartisan week" in May or June .

Amendments on the same theme had received an unfavorable opinion from the government during the budget debates in the fall.