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"We're talking about us as the tinder of the roommate." On Tuesday, at the microphone of Raphaëlle Duchemin, in France Bouge , on Europe 1, Alexandre Assal came to present Whoomies, its application designed to help young people find the ideal roommate. "It's a personal experience that has put us on the path to Whoomies, the co-founder and I have lived in a roommate in France and abroad and we realized that the success of this life in community depended not only good but also people with whom we will share it, "says Alexandre Assal. "That's why we created Whoomies, the idea is to give a person the opportunity to" match "with a future roommate, like a dating app."
"Create relevant meetings"
The user simply has to download the application, define his needs, his budget, his personality, his interests, his school ... An algorithm is in charge of putting him in relation with a person with whom he could have crooked atoms. "The goal is to create relevant meetings with people we would not necessarily meet in our everyday lives, so as to create a roommate.It is also proposed to find housing," says Alexandre Assal who says he wants to go even further. "The third step will be to help young people to access housing by accompanying them in the constitution of their file."
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Today, the application has 65,000 users. "We are aiming for just over 200,000 new users," says Whoomies founder, who believes that roommates have a future if they change their image a bit. "It must be seen as something that is sustainable, durable and safe for the owner, less like a Spanish inn."
More than one in five students have still not found accommodation for the new year
Many students struggle to find housing as the school year approaches. In mid-August, 350,000 of the 1.5 million young people enrolled at the university were still looking for housing, said the general manager of the platform ImmoJeune in Le Figaro.
The Paris region concentrates 30% of searches. And the competition is tough overall. According to Immojeune, there are three times fewer offers than requests for housing.