Anti-Squatting Law: What's New?

Law No. 2023-668, aimed at protecting housing against illegal occupation, was enacted on July 27, 2023. This law strengthens the protection of property owners and secures relationships between landlords and tenants.

The law focuses on three main objectives: better repression of squatting, securing rental relationships, and enhancing support for tenants in difficulty.

To achieve this, the law intensifies the repression of certain offenses, creates new offenses to penalize intrusion and continued occupation of another's property, and introduces measures to protect landlords' rights against non-paying tenants who remain in the property despite an eviction order.

A new offense of fraudulent occupation of residential, commercial, agricultural, or professional premises has been created. This offense extends the repression of squatting to all real estate properties (previously, it only concerned residences). The law also establishes two other offenses: fraudulent