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Rassemblement devant les grilles du jardin du Luxembourg (autrement dit devant le Sénat) pour faire écho dehors à ce qui se discutait dedans, les mesures pour encadrer le loyer ou les faire baisser. Avec l'association Droit au Logement DAL, Confédération Nationale du Logement CNL, Confédération Syndicale des Familles, CSF, Fondation pour le logement des Défavorisés, FLD, et Locataires Ensemble. Avec Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, Manuel Domergue, Elie Lambert, et Eddie Jacquemart.
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00:00So, welcome to this demonstration which is here to demand, on the one hand, that rent control be
00:08perpetuated,
00:11that this rent control leads to a decrease in rents and not to a slowdown in the increase,
00:22and also request various measures, such as the near-elimination of the rent supplement,
00:33which allows owners and landlords to increase their rent for trivial reasons and completely bogus reasons.
00:44And finally, there is also, of course, all the municipalities that wish to...
00:50So, let's remember that rent control was initially intended to apply to the entire area.
00:56'agglomeration by decision of the State.
01:00And there's a certain Prime Minister whom I won't name, I believe he's the last one
01:05as of the socialist date,
01:08who decided that it would be decided by the mayor, at the request of the mayor or the local authority.
01:18Obviously, the consequences...
01:20Ah, but I didn't do the breathing test there!
01:24Ah, the sprockets are...
01:27That's a sensitive issue!
01:30Oh dear!
01:32Okay, that's holding!
01:33There, it's holding! Watch out, there!
01:35Okay, sit down!
01:36Your thing there, on the other hand, you're sure it'll work...
01:39Ah, yeah, yeah!
01:41There it is!
01:43Okay, no, I'm not moving anymore!
01:45Ah, but take that off!
01:47So, there is a certain Prime Minister, right?
01:49No, but look, we're here!
01:52Guess who?
01:53The, but...
01:54So, it starts with...
01:56His first name begins with E.
01:58That's my French.
01:59Emmanuel.
02:01No, it's Emmanuel, sorry, it's without the E.
02:03Oh yeah, it's Manuel.
02:04Yeah, Manuel.
02:05And so, as a result,
02:08Well, obviously, there are mayors who have said
02:10"Oh yes, we want rent control here!"
02:15But there are others who said
02:16"Oh, well no, we don't want any of that!"
02:18It's funny, it could even be town halls that are side by side.
02:22While we were obviously expecting a global effect
02:24rent control across all urban areas,
02:27Well, we got it by municipality, municipality by municipality.
02:31And that's not all!
02:36Since the owners have taken the matter to the administrative court
02:42and upheld the cancellation of rent control
02:45where it was implemented, namely in Lille and Paris.
02:51As a result, there was no longer any rent control.
02:54when a certain E.M. arrived at the Élysée Palace
02:59and so it took a little while
03:02to say, "Okay, we need to reinstate rent control."
03:06and it happened in a law in 2019.
03:12Yes, the law is long, 2018.
03:16And that's what revived rent control.
03:21municipality by municipality, of course!
03:25With the 20% rent increase on the median rent
03:31with the rent supplement
03:33So, as I was saying earlier, landlords did not hesitate to put in place.
03:38The result is rent control, which is being demanded.
03:41by tenants' associations, the movements of the poorly housed
03:46since, let's say, the mid-2000s
03:51Well, this rent control hasn't had a huge impact.
03:56Well, it did allow some tenants to save a little money.
04:01compared to market laws.
04:03And it is certain that in the current context
04:06if rent control is, let's say, repealed
04:11or is not renewed from November 23
04:14since we have it on an experimental basis
04:18Well, it's certain that future tenants
04:22the future new tenants
04:26will clash with market laws
04:29and that the landlords are going to explode
04:31Rents are going to skyrocket due to relocations.
04:35So here, we are obviously facing a situation
04:38which is dramatic overall
04:40Finally, a terrible threat
04:42across all the cities that wished
04:44rent control.
04:47This is aimed at, according to the Court of Auditors
04:501.2 million tenants.
04:53In any case, 1.2 million tenants are subject
04:56Finally, yes, sorry, 1.2 million homes
05:00Leased properties are, in theory, subject to rent control.
05:03The existing tenants, well, normally
05:07should not be subjected to a sudden high
05:09but since, well, the rent is frozen
05:16A landlord cannot increase their rent
05:19beyond IRL
05:20except, even including
05:23at the time of lease renewal.
05:26So, that's what we're asking for.
05:27at the collective level
05:28what we are asking
05:30that's what rent control is all about.
05:32allow for a decrease in rents
05:34in a context where they have never been
05:36also expensive since
05:38let's say since maybe
05:41relative to household income
05:43since before the First World War.
05:46When I entered working life
05:51So, so, if you were a tenant
05:56Well, basically, we were putting in 10 to 12%
05:59of his income in the rent
06:0010 to 12% of his income goes towards rent
06:04in 1973
06:07Well, because there was the 1948 law
06:10who kept rents low
06:11So, not all rents were low
06:13but it relied heavily on low rents
06:16in the aftermath of the Second World War
06:19tenant affordability ratios
06:21tenants spent on average
06:235% of their income
06:25a paradise for tenants
06:28which explains why there are tenants
06:30who were housed
06:30workers who were housed
06:33on the Champs-Elysées
06:34in the 7th arrondissement
06:35There will be some there.
06:36tenants of the 1948 law
06:38obviously
06:39and so
06:41and so
06:44which is terrible
06:45that's because, obviously
06:46rent increases
06:47which was decided
06:49from the moment
06:50in particular, mainly
06:52let's say
06:52at the time when Chirac
06:54he tore apart the 1948 law
06:57rents have started to rise
06:59There
06:59they started to climb
07:01gently
07:02and especially from the beginning
07:03the 2000s
07:04where there
07:05they mounted almost vertically
07:09and we have
07:10we really had
07:11measures
07:12which were largely insufficient
07:14to contain
07:15this increase in rents
07:17There
07:17SO
07:18There is still a lot to say
07:20But I will let the floor be given
07:21to associations
07:22who are here
07:24and to the unions
07:24and I'm not going to monopolize
07:26the word
07:27for hours
07:28In any case
07:29It's certain that the rental income
07:30Well, we need to control it.
07:33and we at least
07:34what we analyze
07:35that's because of real estate prices
07:38and land prices
07:39are correlated
07:41to the rent
07:42when rents rise
07:43real estate prices
07:44land prices are rising
07:46so today
07:47we have
07:49a future
07:50which is blocked
07:50for young people
07:51which is blocked
07:52for the
07:52for those who want
07:54change of accommodation
07:55which is completely blocked
07:56including for the middle classes
07:58who want to become homeowners
08:00which is blocked
08:00for low-income tenants
08:02and who want
08:03to find suitable accommodation
08:04for those poorly housed
08:05it's not a coincidence
08:06if we have 3 million
08:07requests
08:08nearly 3 million
08:09of applicants
08:09social housing
08:10that the expulsions
08:11have been multiplied by 2
08:13in the space of a few years
08:15have been multiplied by 10
08:17since 1983
08:18and that's no coincidence
08:20neither
08:20if there are more and more
08:22people
08:22who live in conditions
08:23housing
08:24indecent
08:25unworthy
08:25and who live among themselves
08:26on the others
08:27And that's not by chance either.
08:28if the laws
08:29which protect tenants
08:30and those poorly housed
08:31are not applied
08:32A roof is a right
08:43I present to you
08:45Eddy Jacquemart
08:46who is president
08:48of the National Confederation
08:50Housing
08:50and who does us the honor
08:52to participate as well
08:53at this gathering
08:54Welcome Eddy
08:55Thank you Jean-Baptiste
08:57and I'm not going to start again
08:59everything he explained to us
09:01our friend
09:02But it's true.
09:02rent control
09:04It's a long story
09:05which began in 2014
09:07and who
09:08with a denial of democracy
09:10since it had been voted on
09:11by Parliament
09:12as you pointed out
09:14voted on by Parliament
09:15and unraveled by a Prime Minister
09:17There
09:17That's not good
09:18then there was
09:19this whole saga
09:21judicial
09:21with the cancellation
09:23and whereas initially
09:26rent control
09:29was planned
09:29for 28
09:3028 urban areas
09:32Today
09:33we are far from the mark
09:34SO
09:36we had hope
09:37that's
09:38rent control
09:40so it becomes permanent
09:41so there was a text
09:42who was
09:44somewhat questionable
09:45anyway
09:45as they left the polling stations
09:47let's say
09:48at the National Assembly
09:49because there was a
09:50let's say
09:51a mediation
09:53between
09:55Macron's
09:56And
09:56the MP
09:58who wore this
09:59in any case there
10:00the senate
10:01he completely
10:03unraveled
10:04the limited progress
10:05that could be noted
10:06in the text
10:06So this is not normal
10:08that
10:10the right
10:11senatorial
10:12once again
10:17guaranteed
10:17rental income
10:19so I mean
10:20that we are in a country
10:22Or
10:22the housing crisis
10:24is almost
10:25equivalent
10:26to that of
10:271950
10:28It wasn't me.
10:29who says so
10:29It's Minister Jean Brin
10:30who compares
10:31so the situation
10:32the situation
10:34of
10:36the situation
10:37of France
10:38in terms of housing
10:40compared to the 1950s
10:423 million
10:43of applicants
10:44rents
10:45very expensive
10:45I would like to remind you that
10:46rents
10:46in 20 years
10:47have increased
10:4887%
10:49while
10:50income
10:50have not increased
10:51than 13%
10:52so we can see it clearly
10:52the dropout
10:53In summary
10:54for the French
10:56here
10:56It is
10:58the accommodation
10:58It is
10:59further
11:00more expensive
11:01smaller
11:01and that
11:02This is not going to continue
11:03people can no longer
11:03to find accommodation
11:04And
11:05somewhere
11:06we are in a crisis
11:08Right now
11:08very important
11:09the government needs
11:11listens to us
11:12the minister
11:14housing
11:15set things right
11:16in relation to this text
11:18and that we arrive
11:19to have
11:20in our country
11:21a framework
11:23rents
11:24completely sustainable
11:26for the entire territory
11:28that's what we want anyway
11:29that the framework
11:31rents
11:31or a real framework
11:32rents
11:33let's stop
11:34the supplement
11:36rent
11:37which is actually
11:38an extra
11:39rent
11:39somewhere
11:40It's an extra rent.
11:41for the private sector
11:42if we can compare it
11:43at the social park
11:45the owners
11:46they give it their all
11:46a joyful heart
11:47to increase
11:48rents
11:49compared with
11:49to this supplement
11:50rent
11:50who remains
11:51Today
11:52in the text
11:53we want
11:54that he be
11:54completely removed
11:55but we also want
11:57that there be
11:58a real
12:00directory
12:01rents
12:02controllable
12:03and justified
12:04I hear
12:05You know
12:06that there is
12:07Since
12:072-3 years
12:08a file
12:12real estate
12:14where each owner
12:16must declare
12:17the property
12:18that he owns
12:18and explain
12:20usage
12:21if he occupies
12:22on my own
12:23or if he rents it
12:24and if you rent it
12:26it would suffice
12:26to add
12:27two small columns
12:28with the amount
12:29of the annual rent
12:31and the area
12:32and we would have
12:33our management
12:34rents
12:35our directory
12:35rents
12:36because here too
12:37I see that
12:39in order to be able to tax
12:41the French
12:42because the file
12:44real estate
12:44which has been put in place
12:45it's only
12:46to be able to better
12:47control the tax
12:48housing
12:48and to be sure
12:49that everyone
12:51is quite clear
12:53with that
12:53and there
12:54this file
12:56real estate
12:56it also serves
12:58to have
12:58a directory
12:59rents
13:00That's important
13:01and we want that
13:02all territories
13:03can use it
13:04I went last night
13:06in Strasbourg
13:07since there is a collective
13:08which has been put in place
13:08to ask
13:10THE
13:11THE
13:12THE
13:13THE
13:13THE
13:13THE
13:13THE
13:13THE
13:13THE
13:13THE
13:14THE
13:14THE
13:14THE
13:14THE
13:14THE
13:14THE
13:14THE
13:20THE
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13:22will not be able to request it if the current text continues its legislative life.
13:27Therefore, the text needs to be reviewed; we need to go back to the original text of the Assembly.
13:34national,
13:34even improved, because at some point, the members of parliament also need to,
13:39They hear the tenants' suffering and that we should stop being constantly sidelined.
13:44So !
13:52And we tenants are fed up with the high cost of living, we're angry, we're fed up with these hassles, and with the
13:59high cost of living.
14:00And we're fed up with the high cost of living, we're going to get angry, we're going to get angry.
14:08So, in unity, we tenants are gathered together to defend our interests.
14:13Hello comrades, well it's been a long time since we've met here,
14:17Once again, we are in a discussion in the Senate where we are hoping not to back down.
14:22And not backing down is starting to get tiresome, because every time we fight and
14:25'we release all our energy
14:26To try and save the framework, well, we don't create new rights.
14:30As we said earlier, we fight to get the management team, but it's
14:34Not enough.
14:35We are not content with slowing the rise, we want to initiate the decline.
14:41The accommodation is too expensive.
14:43We will need to appeal to public opinion, to all decision-makers, to ask them a simple question, my comrades.
14:50What is the purpose of housing?
14:53Is it used to house families, to house young people, or is it used to
14:57To enrich investors?
14:59What is the purpose of housing?
15:02The question is right here, it's not somewhere else.
15:05Housing is a basic need.
15:08Every time we have allowed the market to regulate a fundamental need,
15:13It costs the weakest, it enriches the richest.
15:16Housing must be removed from the market economy.
15:20It needs to be regulated.
15:22What were the laws of 1948? They were a form of regulation.
15:25So let's move forward, let's build new rights.
15:28And then, my dear comrades, let us take this opportunity to greet our other European tenant comrades.
15:34Things are moving a little bit everywhere right now.
15:36We have Italy, we have Spain, we have Germany.
15:40The populations are under pressure.
15:42Thank you, Portugal.
15:43The populations are under pressure.
15:45Everyone is fed up with spending too much money to live.
15:49Housing is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
15:53If you don't have a home, you die.
15:55So that's the price of life, it's a right.
15:57THANKS.
15:59So let's fight to build new rights
16:02which will consist of removing housing from the market
16:05and to ensure that everyone can live with dignity.
16:08THANKS.
16:12Bravo, bravo.
16:13Thank you, Romain.
16:17So, union, association, foundation, solidarity.
16:25Well, I think that...
16:27Oh, how many times have we been here?
16:29No, it's as Romain said, it's that...
16:32In fact, when it comes to housing, it's like unemployment insurance.
16:34It feels like the texts are just piled one after the other.
16:38We were there for the PPL Sassonne at the beginning of the year.
16:45We were there in July regarding the Jean-Brun bill.
16:51And so, here we are in relation to...
16:53So, in this case, it's not quite the same thing after all.
16:57Because we are here to defend, obviously, rent control.
17:02But even so, as has been said, it is still not a social right.
17:07Huh? Let's not kid ourselves.
17:09Especially given that, after the dismantling that was obviously carried out by the Senate on the version of
17:16the National Assembly.
17:17That's not what we want.
17:19So, obviously, if we still manage to stay up...
17:25So, a priori, it's a provisional two-year extension, therefore with supervision.
17:29So, that's absolutely not enough.
17:31We, the management, that's not what we want, what we said.
17:34What we want is a decrease.
17:35But I think that's been said enough already, obviously.
17:38We are here as representatives of the employees.
17:41And this is something absolutely essential, since, as has also been said,
17:48We are here to fight against the high cost of living.
17:51But what happened a few days ago?
17:55I don't know, there was a demonstration, apparently, which caused quite a stir, we'll
17:59say,
17:59The highest authorities in this country, that is.
18:03Well, she was actually against the high cost of living.
18:05And this is just the beginning, by the way.
18:07Because, in any case, it's going to start again.
18:09It's going to start up again a bit like the Yellow Vest protests, since we're back to next Saturday.
18:15the following Saturday, then there's the 5th.
18:17November 5th, where, for once, it is the unions who are calling.
18:22But I think we will obviously be joined by the high school student mobilizations.
18:28that I want to support here, because it's not over.
18:33Their cause is entirely just.
18:35And it's also linked to housing, by the way.
18:38Because when you live in completely dilapidated housing,
18:42which are extremely expensive
18:43The conditions for studying are not there, they are not met.
18:47So, from this point on, it is really necessary that, well, that we all be mobilized.
18:54Right now, there is a social period that is somewhat unprecedented.
18:59It's something that, well, we need to keep working on to grow our ranks.
19:03And so, in solidarity, obviously, will be there, therefore, taking responsibility
19:11and truly fighting for rights, for new rights, that has also been said,
19:18and obviously, on housing, which is the primary cause of precariousness.
19:21It is absolutely essential never to back down.
19:30For housing, the poorest, the disadvantaged.
19:35All right.
19:37Manuel Demers, former activist with Jeudi Noir.
19:42That's excellent.
19:43Hello, hello, thank you very much.
19:46The right to housing, for the organization, the invitation.
19:49We are not at the end of a struggle that will last for many, many years, even decades.
19:55As for rent control, which we managed to secure even in a moderate version,
19:59But we can clearly see that there is even a moderate version of rent control.
20:03which nevertheless allows for rents that remain completely excessive.
20:06But capping them, even that, is a vision that seems totally unbearable, in fact.
20:12for people who are trying to rent for the highest possible price.
20:14And their representatives, the representatives of private landlords, real estate agencies,
20:20Ideological opponents of rent control,
20:22have been at war for years and years.
20:25They thought they had won recently because they had reports that supposedly went in their favor.
20:31And in fact, we're still dealing with a compromise this time.
20:34a two-year extension of the supervision, and this is only a temporary setback.
20:39That's not what we wanted.
20:40As you know, we wanted rent control to be made permanent,
20:43its generalization and, above all, its strengthening.
20:45Because the problem with rent control is not only that it allows rents that are already very high
20:49students,
20:49but that, in addition, it allows a lot of fraud on the part of landlords.
20:54Approximately one-third of rental properties exceed rent control limits.
20:59for no reason in the vast majority of cases.
21:03And for that, the government and the prefects never have a single word, nor even any action.
21:08to try to enforce tenants' rights.
21:11Tenants' rights are landlords' obligations.
21:13And that, we get the impression, is totally secondary.
21:16Prefects, ministers, governments who only ever talk about respecting the law, of the
21:21'order, etc.,
21:21they never do anything to enforce tenants' rights with their friends who are private landlords.
21:27And so today, we had an opportunity to strengthen this framework.
21:31It was the ECHAMIS bill that was adopted in the Assembly.
21:34with all the diversity of the National Assembly, and yet it was adopted.
21:38to ensure its sustainability, to open up the framework to all cities that wish to participate.
21:41And there are many cities that want that.
21:44Marseille, Grenoble-Séphée, Nantes, Rennes, Tours, Strasbourg,
21:48many other cities would like to join the framework,
21:50and who are currently prevented by law from doing so.
21:52One might have hoped that the Senate, which represents local authorities,
21:56defends the freedom of cities to regulate rent control.
22:00Well, no.
22:00So what we have is this kind of somewhat flawed compromise,
22:03a two-year extension, with virtually no strengthening of tenants' rights.
22:08reducing even the time limit for contesting a rent overrun,
22:11which would go from three years to one year.
22:13So it's rather a regression from that point of view.
22:16So it's still something to be happy about, it's a small victory.
22:19that the Senate votes to extend rent control.
22:23It was far from a sure thing.
22:24Without it, the framework will collapse in a few weeks.
22:27But we're not going to stop there.
22:29The idea is that if it is adopted in those terms by the Senate,
22:31then at the Assembly in a few weeks,
22:33We're going back for two years, and in fact we're restarting our campaign.
22:36as it has been conducted for the last ten years, for the last twenty years,
22:39to regulate rents,
22:40but this time in the context of the presidential campaign.
22:42And so we will make a commitment to the candidates
22:44to make them understand that it is also in their interest as candidates.
22:47Surveys were conducted which showed that 87% of respondents
22:51were in favor of rent control,
22:52including landlords.
22:54Why? Because it's just common sense.
22:56We can't set exorbitant rents.
23:00completely unlimited, with no tenant protection whatsoever.
23:03There you go. So that's something we won in the debate.
23:05And if that scares them,
23:07It's not simply about saving a few dozen euros on rent.
23:09who will have to accept
23:10It's also because it's a foot in the door.
23:12of the regulation of real estate markets.
23:15Once we've won the rent control measures,
23:17The next step is to regulate land prices.
23:19And that too will be a topic of debate.
23:21because the idea is that we can't collect rents,
23:23land prices cannot be sold at any price.
23:25because the real estate market,
23:27the housing market,
23:29It is a machine for reproducing and exacerbating inequalities
23:31of heritage, of standard of living.
23:33And so, for all of this, rent control,
23:35This is a first step in that direction.
23:37a small stone, but a stone nonetheless.
23:39There you go. Thank you.
23:40And housing must be regulated.
23:43And we're trying together with the tenants to find something as well
23:45to fight for other avenues,
23:47to lower rents,
23:49who are also on the side of the DPE (Energy Performance Diagnosis),
23:51to ensure that poorly insulated housing,
23:54that the rent freeze be respected
23:56that they cannot be increased,
23:57This is what is threatened today.
23:59But also on surface control,
24:01we have many tenants who realize
24:03that the areas which are on their lease
24:06these are not real surfaces.
24:08Salomé received over 4,000 euros for that.
24:10Last week, Lucien last year,
24:12recovered 11,000 euros combined between rent control
24:15and a surface area that wasn't correct according to his lease
24:20to explore other options,
24:22all the levers that are possible
24:23to lower rent controls.
24:26And also the third dimension.
24:28it's about being able to gain more power
24:30For tenants, more rights for tenants.
24:32to go and mobilize like our comrades in Spain
24:34and therefore more rights to be able
24:37to go on a rent strike
24:37which today is our only lever
24:39to put pressure on
24:41and have more leverage to lower rents
24:43and to gain more rights for tenants.
24:50So, is this a rent strike?
24:52Rent strike!
24:53Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh...
24:55Okay, fine.
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