worn by Renaissance deputies Guillaume Kasbarian and Aurore Bergé, the text examined from Monday in the National Assembly weighed down prison sentences for squatters, and creates against tenants who do not submit to An expulsion decision.
by Claire Ané
This is a text that makes you react. The bill “aimed at protecting housing against illicit occupation”, which must be examined in the National Assembly as of Monday, November 28, was criticized several times during a conference against energy precariousness, the November 23 in Paris. Former Minister of Housing of François Hollande, Emmanuelle Cosse estimated that he “calls into question ten years of government work on the prevention of expulsions”. And Emmanuelle Wargon, in charge of the same portfolio during the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, to engage: “There are only about 200 squats per year. With the last reform [the ASAP law of 2020], we found a balance and we know how to treat them. And we had been able to contain the rental evictions. “
These words, the calls to withdraw the text from around fifteen organizations – including the Human Rights League, the Syndicat de la Magistracy and the main associations of tenants – or the opposition of deputies of Left do not discourage the Renaissance deputy Guillaume Kasbarian. If he has tabled this bill with Aurore Bergé and many other elected officials of the presidential majority, it is to “respond to real situations of distress of small owners, victims of squatters or rents for rents for several years “. “Since then, I have received some two hundred testimonies,” he said.
Associations are particularly concerned about the adoption, in the law committee, an amendment carried by deputies Les Républicains (LR), considered “welcome” by Guillaume Kasbarian. “The occupation without law or title, in bad faith, of a building built for residential use belonging to a third party is akin to a flight”, provides for the new article 1 er a. “This formulation would make sentences of three to fifteen years in prison of people who have dressed up an empty accommodation for years, as well as tenants whose lease has been terminated after unpaid. While currently, the domicile violation exposes At a sentence of one year in prison, “deciphers the director of studies of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, Manuel Domergue.
” Maintain a balance “
Furthermore, emergency evacuation by the prefecture, provided for by ASAP law in the event of a domicile violation, could now be requested even if the latter is “not furnished”. “It is a question of covering the period before moving in,” said Guillaume Kasbarian. “This makes it possible to extend the concept of domicile to more than 3 million vacant dwellings,” said Ninon Overhoff, head of the street department at housing in Secours Catholique.
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