While the 2018 student housing meetings are held on Tuesday, November 20th, at the University of Paris-Dauphine, a Diplomo survey shows that 35% of students still live with their parents. Only 24% have their own apartment.
The Paris-Dauphine University welcomes, on Tuesday, November 20, the appointments of student housing 2018. It is the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal who opened the day.
" Faced with the demographic growth and diversification of students, we are determined to make student housing a government priority. Mobilization is complete for 60,000 new homes by 2022, " she said.
With @J_Denormandie, we opened the # RDVLE2018. Faced with population growth and student diversification, we are determined to make student housing a government priority. Mobilization is complete for 60,000 new homes by 2022. pic.twitter.com/HgXa4Z3Xkb
- Frédérique Vidal (@VidalFrederique) November 20, 2018A priority, yes, because each year, thousands of students struggle to find housing when starting the academic year. In the West, this was the case everywhere this year: in Rennes, Cholet, Angers ... A few weeks ago, Diplomeo, site specialized in the questions of orientation, released the results of a survey, two month after the start of the school year. Apartment, student residence or roommate? What budget? What difficulties? Answers in numbers.
35%
"Even if some dream of freedom and independence at the end of the baccalaureate, they are sometimes forced to stay at dad-mum," says Diplomeo. One-third of the students surveyed still live with their parents (35%), 24% have chosen to take their own apartment, 16% have turned to the student residence or 12% are experimenting with the collocation.
Between 300 and 600 €
64% of young people who have their own home spend between 300 and 600 € per month, 19% managed to find renting accommodation below 300 €, 14% pay between 600 and 900 € and 3% between 900 and 1200 € . Rents vary greatly by city. The average rent of a studio is 872 € in Paris and 426 € in Rennes.
Between 15 and 30 m²
The average housing area of the students surveyed is between 15 and 30m² (51%). 25% of them live in a dwelling between 30 and 60 m², 15% in a less than 15 m², and 8% in a more than 60 m².
15 to 30 minutes travel time
Regarding travel time, students prefer proximity to their place of study and precious extra minutes of sleep in the morning. 59% take between 15 and 30 minutes to go to their place of study, 23% between 30 and 45 minutes and 12% between 45 and 60 minutes. To get there, 79% use the bus to go to class against 16% for the car. 70% of young people have settled in the city where they study.
67% of students have struggled in their search
Places are often expensive and, for this fall 2018, they are 67% to declare having encountered difficulties in their research. At the head of the regions that caused the greatest concern: New Aquitaine, Ile-de-France and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. 69% were forced to make a compromise: the rent was too high for 73% of them, they ran into a shortage for 60% and their file was not accepted for 38%.