Lyon includes excessive heat in housing habitability criteria

Lyon becomes the first city in France to include excessive heat as a habitability criterion.

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This measure, praised by tenant associations, addresses the increasing frequency of heatwaves.

Ecologist mayor Grégory Doucet advocates for a national law on the issue.

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