Overview

• New applications for global home upgrades, insulation and heating replacements are suspended from July through late September to tackle backlogs and fraudulent filings.
• Economy Minister Éric Lombard and Housing Minister Valérie Létard have pledged to review 16,000 suspicious dossiers, redefine program rules and ensure a smoother budget rollout prior to a year-end relaunch.
• Nineteen professional bodies including the FFB and Capeb warn that up to 100,000 jobs could be at risk and are preparing protests around the FFB’s June congress while demanding talks with Prime Minister François Bayrou.
• Agence nationale de l'habitat data reveal a threefold rise in grant applications in Q1 2025 alongside 12% of cases flagged as suspicious, overwhelming processing capacity.
• The pause leaves hundreds of thousands of homeowners in limbo and threatens to delay both France’s residential carbon-reduction targets and the cash flow of small contractors.