Rent freeze for energy-intensive homes comes into effect

“Today, we cannot let people live in thermal colanders and not act in their favor,” said the Minister Delegate for Housing, Olivier Klein, in a video posted on social networks. "And acting in their favor means blocking rents from August 24, so that tenants are protected and landlords are even more invited to carry out the necessary work", continues the minister.

Labels F and G of the energy performance diagnosis (DPE) correspond to dwellings consuming more than 330 kilowatt hours per square meter per year or emitting more than 70 kg of CO2 equivalent per square meter per year.

That is 17% of the stock of main residences in France.

In the next few years, new restrictions will come into force for owners of dwellings with poor ECD, in order to encourage them to improve it.

From January 2023, the worst thermal colanders, which consume more than 450 kilowatt hours per year per square meter (i.e. approximately 90.000 homes), will be purely and simply prohibited from renting.

This will be followed in 2025 by all G-rated housing (i.e. 7% of the stock currently) then F in 2028 (10%) and E in 2034 (22%).

To achieve the climate objectives set by France, the entire French building stock must be transformed into "low consumption buildings" by 2050, roughly equivalent to categories A and B, which today represent 2 and 3% of the park respectively.

The use of buildings represents a fifth of France's greenhouse gas emissions.