During their higher education, students generally seek student accommodation to live there. Some may claim financial aid, such as a student scholarship, to pay their rent. Here is our complete guide to student accommodation, the aid that exists and the steps to be taken.
After the bac or as part of a CAP training, many students are led to study far from the family home and to take a Student accommodation. Each year, long before the start of the school year, the Student housing searches Multiply in major cities, especially at the beginning of summer (even if the ideal period is rather in May). Some submit their request to obtain a place in a Crous residence (Regional Center for University and School Works), while others turn to private housing or colocations between students. However, it is not always easy to find decent accommodation, with reasonable rent. What are the financial aid to which students can claim? Practical responses and advice on student housing.
What type of accommodation for a student?
Several dwellings can be accessible and adapted to students:
- THE Crous university residences
- Private student residences
- Studios
- T1 apartments
- The roommates
- Intergenerational cohabitation
- Student households
- Social residences or young workers’ households
What aid for student accommodation?
The Family Allowance Fund (CAF) but also Action Housing offer students housing financial aid Depending on the nature of the accommodation chosen and the family situation of the young person. They are paid either directly to the owner of the accommodation or the student.
- Social housing allowance (ALS) For single or couple students, without any dependent. It is generally paid when the student cannot claim the ALF or the APL.
- Family housing allowance (ALF) For single or couple students, with a dependent person (in metropolitan France or in the French overseas departments),
- Personalized housing assistance (APL) For students without dependent, singles or in couple, living in approved housing.
- Help Mobili-Jeune For young workers under the age of 30 on work -study contract.
For benefit from housing aid at the start of the next school year,, Four conditions must be met:
- Be a French or foreign student with a valid residence permit.
- Rent decent accommodation (meeting minimum surface and comfort criteria and without risk of damaging the security and health of the tenant).
- Do not have a relationship with the owner of the accommodation.
- Have resources (salary, student scholarship, alimony …) less than a certain ceiling.
What steps and documents for a request for student housing assistance?
You have found your future Student accommodation And you just received the keys to your first apartment? It’s time to prepare documents necessary to apply for housing assistance from CAF or housing action, Depending on your situation. It will then be necessary to present: the rental contract or the lease, a RIB (BIC/IBAN format) belonging to the student, the beneficiary number of the parents (and their CAF of belonging if they are beneficiaries), as well as the contact details of the lessor, and the amount of the rent. If you do not have a guarantor, the Student (or Visale) rental deposit can be used for students: it is a guarantee guaranteed by the State.
To make a simulation of housing assistance,, Go directly to the CAF websitesection “Aids and procedures” then “Housing”, to determine the sum that can be allocated to you. This is calculated according to the rent and geographic location of your future apartment, but also your income and your family situation. Note that parents’ income is not taken into account in the Calculation of housing aid of the student. Nevertheless, parents are advised to calculate whether it is more advantageous for them to continue to attach their home or not in the home during tax declarations, so as not to lose family services.
In France, students can have access to a Housing of the Social Park in a university residence, managed by Crous. THE Crous housing are accessible to students under resource conditions. In general, the criteria are the same as for the calculation of the student scholarship, for students whose income is low. To request a Crous accommodation, the future tenant must constitute a student social file (DSE) On the site messervices.etudiant.gouv.fr, check the box “I ask for accommodation”, then place it. If you are not yet registered on this site, the first step is therefore the registration.
To obtain a student scholarship, it is necessary to request it on the site messervices.etudiant.gouv.fr. For the university year 2023-2024, requests must be filed until May 31, 2023. Students must apply for this Student social file (DSE).
If you are registered on Parcoursup, you automatically have an account, and you just have to access it thanks to your email address and password. If this is not the case, you must create one by entering your Ine number (national student identification) which is on your student card or on the enrollment confirmation print in the baccalaureate. Then you just have to add to your DSE, a copy Your tax opinion 2022 on the income received in 2021 and that of your parents. You must also deposit the digital versions of your supporting documents for schoolingand those of your brothers and sisters if they are also students. Other documents may be requested according to your situation. Click on the link for Test your eligibility for a student scholarship.
