“This additional delay is rather positive but the State makes us, once again, bear the responsibility of being up to date with standards that it is constantly evolving,” sighs Yohan. At 46 years old, this individual, at the head of an IT company, is the lessor owner of a co-owned studio. He welcomes the five-year respite that the government is granting him but is concerned about standards that have become “incomprehensible, illogical and inapplicable”.
This Thursday, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, and the Minister of Housing, Vincent Jeanbrun, announced during a trip to Marseille that they would present a bill by June to give landlords more time to respect the ban on renting energy sieves. Individual houses have a three-year “respite”, compared to five years for condominiums.