The problem of rental housing, or how the State insists on making the private
to make individuals bear the burden of a systemic problem that is not theirs to solve.
I am from a generation that knew the so-called poor landlords. These were people who, mostly by inheritance,
had homes or premises subject to the limitations of the 1955 Urban Leases of 1955 reformed in 1964.
Thus, they were bound hand and foot by a regulation that imposed on them, on the one hand that imposed on them, on the one hand, the obligation to maintain the leases of dwellings and business premises indefinitely; and on the other hand, it prevented them from on the other hand, prevented them from increasing rents beyond the CPI.
Paradoxically, there were tenants with a much higher economic capacity than their landlords, who paid them derisory rents.
The State continues to opt for these two measures: lengthening the mandatory duration of contracts and limiting both the amount of rents and their increases upon renewal. To this are added the suspensions of eviction and launching procedures.
On the other hand, the very long duration of legal proceedings generates significant legal uncertainty, since a tenant can stop paying rent and remain in the dwelling for months on end without paying.
