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The start of the school year has resumed and some students have still not found accommodation in Paris. Brut went to visit an apartment. The students we met testify to the housing crisis in the capital.
Mathis alternates between the friends’ couch and his brother’s house. He still hasn’t found an apartment in Paris and it’s not for lack of looking at properties. “Prices are very high and there are few apartments” explains the young man. It also often happens that agencies ask the tenant to earn “three times the rent”, an amount totally out of touch with the realities of student life.
“We can do whatever we want, we will never be enough” for agencies
Even getting a visit seems like an obstacle course. “10 minutes after the ads were posted online, we called, and there were already 30 people who called” says Lou, student. “We are even refused visits. Every morning we go to the Jinka app, we wait for the alerts and that’s it all the time in fact” adds Zélie, who has been looking for accommodation since last January. “The students: the poor, really, the poor! They just want to come and study and it’s hell, they sleep on their friends’ sofas… I wouldn’t want to be in their place right now. It is complicated” declares Melanie.