students whose accommodation is requisitioned for the Olympics will receive 100 euros and two places for Olympic events

A gesture to calm the controversy. Students who will have their Crous accommodation requisitioned during the Paris Olympic Games will receive compensation of “100 euros” And “two places” offered to attend “Olympic events”announced the Minister of Higher Education, Sylvie Retailleau, Thursday October 26, in an interview published Thursday in The Parisian.

During the Games in Paris, more than 2,000 students will have to be relocated because their accommodation, Crous, an organization which notably manages student residences, will be made available to firefighters, caregivers, law enforcement and security personnel. civil. The Paris administrative court, however, suspended in summary proceedings the decision of the Crous to limit the occupancy leases of student accommodation in view of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to June 30.

New student accommodation after the Olympics

“Every year, in Ile-de-France, 30% of Crous housing, or 6,000 apartments, find themselves unoccupied during the summer because students stop their lease for various reasons,” recalls Sylvie Retailleau. It was, according to her, “common sense that empty housing during the summer contributes to meeting the housing needs encountered by public officials during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.” “Of these approximately 6,000 empty student accommodations, the idea will be to use 3,200,” says the minister who specifies that “2,200 students will need to be relocated.”

Furthermore, she ensures that “1,667 housing units in the Olympic village and the media village”, of which “1,300 in Seine-Saint-Denis”, will be converted into student accommodation after the Paris Olympic Games, from “first semester of the 2024-2025 academic year”.