The situation is significantly more complicated for Paris and Berlin which are touristic hot spots on top of being big cities.

For exemple, the 19% you quote in Paris include occasional occupation which is partially driven up by the insane price of hotel for which people who need to spend time in Paris regularly have to compete with tourists.

But I disagree with you on the absence of policy to adjust the situation. Paris has been doing a lot in the past few years.

The city severely limited the ability of owners to turn their property into short term rentals to try to increase the long term rental offering.

Then there was the rent cap but its impact is more difficult to estimate. On the one hand, it made renting properties less interesting and probably incitated some owners to keep their appartments empty. On the other hand, it severely limited the possibility of borrowing money for buy to rent project as it doesn't make much sense financially and therefore lowered the market pressure for people buying to live.

Last year, they significantly increased the vacant property tax. It's calculated on the rental value and quickly raise to 34% of it so it rapidely doesn't make sense to keep an appartment empty if you are not going to be in Paris very frequently.

there's nothing dubious about Le Pen, she was found guilty of embezzlement for €3millions of public funds.

It’s not dubious but it’s not equal justice. The head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, was found guilty of transferring €403 million from EU taxpayers to a certain tycoon, but she did not receive a verdict and now runs the ECB.

Don't forget Salvini's party, that stole at least 49M between 2008 and 2010. Nothing bad happened: they just have to return them, 600k per year, for 70 years. It's calculated that the final real value of the returned money will be less than 20M. Absolute scandal.

Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement for transferring European Parliament funds to run her National Front.

Legarde was convicted of negligence for approving the payout of the two decade long Tapie arbitration.

These are not the same.

Informative panels about the vote where pretty much everywhere around the city.

And yet they couldn't even name one street that would be turned into a pedestrian one! Or give a budget! World class management right here heh?

If doing a nazi salute isn't sad enough, failing to reclaim it is even sadder

> Also, the series lacks character development. Yes, people become more cynical and burnt out, but they are already very cynical and burnt out to begin with, so there's really not that much to build upon...

Bodie, Carver, Daniels, Cutty, and those are only the ones I can remember on the spot now...

And Bubs! Bubs has clearly the best character arc ever

Try LuLu

Now just read what tweet was quoted by that reply...

Too bad that is impossible to do without a twitter/x account.

Oh well. Nothing of value was lost.

Except that for the internet is a bad thing

So in the end the real cancel culture finally came? _Mais vous m'étonnez..._

Bedbugs have been a problem for years in Paris, but of course the government starts to think about it for the Olympics. Regular people can rot in hell for what they care

for sure, public transport would be different if politicians were using it.

The risk of being either slapped or punched in the face on a daily basis, would certainly prevent most politicians to mingle with regular people.

Macron could take the public transport any day, he would just need to close it to the public.

montjoie st denis !!!