Housing: the great ideological divide between the presidential candidates

From deregulation to requisition, the range of tools that the main presidential candidates promise to use to resolve the housing crisis illustrates to the point of caricature the divide between liberals and collectivists. More than five months before the presidential election, not all of them have yet finalized their project, but the broad outlines they presented already make it possible to situate them.

The most liberal is, overall, David Lisnard. Housing policy is one of the areas in which the “social-statism” that the mayor fights has caused the most devastation, according to him. Rent control? Afuera! Bruno Retailleau also promises to abolish it, as do Édouard Philippe and Marine Le Pen. The Republican candidate did not hesitate, two weeks ago, to vote against the bill which extends the supervision experiment for two years. The rest of the LR group in the Senate voted for it, with only one other exception.

The standards in question

The position…