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In France, more than one dwelling in ten is unoccupied. In Mulhouse, in the Haut-Rhin, 14% of private housing is empty. The city helps with the rehabilitation of certain dwellings, in exchange the owner caps the amount of the rent.
From the outside, the clues leave little room for doubt: closed shutters, dilapidated facades, dusty intercoms. To Mulhouse, 14% of private accommodation is empty, unoccupied for several years. A desolation against which the city is trying to fight. An old building has also remained vacant for a long time, practically unsanitary. But today, it is in full renovation, accompanied by the city of Mulhouse (Bas-Rhin).
Administrative support, but above all financial. In exchange, the owner undertakes to rent the eight apartments at moderate rents for nine years. A constraint compensated by a tax reduction of 70% on the rents collected. Essential incentives to recover rental housing. As a last resort, the city of Mulhouse also obtained the possibility of expropriating owners who refused to put their housing back on the market.
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