2023-08-31 15:33:45
For tenants, the end of the current regulations is bad news. The tenants’ union estimates that half of the accommodation (even more in some municipalities) rented out is poorly insulated. “It’s not up to the tenant to pay for energy strainers“, tells us José Garcia, general secretary of the tenants’ union. He adds that the measure is still necessary given the inflation “relatively strong“.
An opinion shared by associations for housing assistance and the fight against poverty. “It is a bad signal that is given in the current situation, the energy crisis that we have experienced, but with energy prices which continue to have a strong impact on household income“, says Marie-Claude Chainaye, project manager at the Walloon Network for the fight against poverty.
As to whether the measures put in place last year have made it possible to improve the most poorly insulated dwellings? “It’s too early to tell,” we said José Garcia. “But logically, I think that indeed the donors who wanted to proceed with the indexation in spite of everything must have realized that there was a huge shortfall […] They must realize that with, in particular the aid that the regions make available to them, it is much more profitable to quickly renovate the property and to insulate it well..”
According to study figures Walloon strategy for the long-term energy renovation of buildingstdating from 2020, 37% of single-family homes in Wallonia have obtained the PEB G label, 17% the PEB F. For apartments, the situation is less problematic: 16% have the PEB G and 9% the F.
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