the National Assembly adopts a simplification textual content to remodel workplaces into properties | EUROtoday

The National Assembly unanimously adopted, Thursday March 7, a textual content geared toward facilitating the transformation of workplaces into housing, even when deputies from all sides agree that it’s only a small step within the face of the profound disaster going through the sector.

Voted at first studying by the 80 deputies current, from virtually all teams (the GDR group with a communist majority didn’t participate within the vote), the invoice from MoDem Romain Daubié (Ain) is now anticipated within the Senate.

According to the Minister for Housing, Guillaume Kasbarian, this textual content “does useful work by adding supply in a context where the market is blocked”. In Ile-de-France, there are 4.5 million sq. meters of empty workplaces, estimate Mr. Daubié and the federal government.

Facilitating their transformation is important given the numerous difficulties to find housing and likewise responds to a “ecological necessity”, insists the parliamentarian. In order to scale back delays, its textual content supplies for simplification measures comparable to an exemption from the native city planning plan when an workplace is remodeled into housing.

Creation of a “reversible building permit”

The textual content additionally creates a “reversible building permit”which lets you change the ” destination “ of a constructing – workplace, housing – because of an approximation of fireside and acoustic requirements. Romain Daubié attracts inspiration on this level from what was completed in Seine-Saint-Denis for the Olympic village. Finally, a part of the invoice is dedicated to Crous, in order that extra workplaces can develop into pupil lodging.

The deputies validated a extra debated measure of economic assist for communities, permitting mayors to topic operations of transformation of workplaces into housing to the event tax. The proper opposed it, fearing a rise in the price of housing, and the federal government expressed its reservations.

Without opposing the invoice, many elected officers harassed that it was solely a “little stone”, removed from responding to the disaster within the sector. This textual content responds to a “peripheral problem”mentioned MP David Taupiac, from the Libertés, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) group.

“It’s a niche tool that will not respond to the structural housing crisis”, added ecologist Sabrina Sebaihi. In a press launch revealed after the vote, the MoDem group, member of the presidential majority, itself recalled “waiting for a major housing bill”.