2023-12-05 23:25:00
The Parisian Urban Planning Agency (Apur) revealed today that one in five Parisian homes was vacant or poorly occupied. 262,000 homes “which do not constitute the main residence of a household”, a figure that MEPs would like to see reduced.
The Apur report shows that in detail, 128,000 Parisian housing units were vacant, and 134,000 used occasionally (work) or as a second home (leisure), for a total of 19% of the unoccupied stock. It is essentially the center of the capital which is deserted, knowing that 72% of the housing we are talking about is T1 or T2.
Behind Nice, where 28% of housing is unoccupied, Paris holds second place in France, ahead of Grenoble (17%) and Nancy (16%). However, the Apur report dates from 2020, it is a safe bet that the figure is more around 280,000 today. As reported by AFP, at the other end of the ranking is Toulon (6%), behind Nantes and Rennes (10%).
Recalling that the rental of a second home or vacant accommodation is “not legal”, Apur considers that the recent increase in the number of “unoccupied” accommodation is “partly linked to the increase in furnished tourist rentals not declared.
Around 25,000 homes “would be diverted from their use to be rented on platforms”, estimates the general director of Apur, Alexandre Labasse.
To respond to these problems, the deputies gave their approval to a transpartisan bill which attacks, in the face of the housing shortage, the “tax niche” of furnished tourist accommodation such as Airbnb.
The most debated measure concerns the reduction in the tax reduction rate on income from furnished tourist accommodation to 30%, except in “very sparsely populated rural areas”. “Our goal is not to tax” owners “but to encourage them to rent their homes,” emphasizes Jacques Baudrier.
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