The petition demands a right to reuse for existing buildings based on three key pillars: (I) tax reductions for renovation works and reused materials, (II) fair rules to assess both potentials and risks of existing buildings, and (III) new values for the embedded CO2 in existing structures.
Here is the organization’s website: https://www.houseeurope.eu/
To me it feels like no additional law is required - those with bad buildings will pay more for heating. If they carry those costs to tenants their rent will be higher than others and they will no longer be competitive.
Except there is a big housing shortage, so tenants will have to accept those higher rents.
True, but higher rent apartments will be at a disadvantage and will be rented out after the cheaper ones.
Agreed: if anything we should tax combustibles more to make them less appealing
O&G is actually subsidized.
Maybe only where you live?
AFAIK in most places (and certainly where I live) people pay taxes on heating oil/gas (VAT and oftentimes excises too)
The subsidies come mainly in a form of tax breaks for producers.
But… we were talking about disincentivizing the use of fossil fuels (so that less is burned), not their production (so that more is imported)