Schools Are Over Crowded in France

The program of construction and rehabilitation begins to bear fruit. For the backlog, all ideas are good to take.

Are every year the same images of young people visiting the cramped quarters and decaying looking distraught at the news of excessive rents. The crisis of student housing is like a bottomless pit: the new buildings are never sufficient to compensate for the increased demand. Some 1.5 million students in search of a roof is over ten times the number of rooms available in university

In February 2008, the Ministry of Higher Education had yet committed to addressing the problem. He was responding to the recommendations of UMP deputy Jean-Paul Anciaux, author of two reports in 2004 and 2008 on the crisis in student housing.

Reassigning barracks

In his second paper, welcomed by all student unions, MPs suggested, inter alia, diversifying the offers to develop the “intergenerational housing” (the elderly), the roommate … and identify sites ” immediately usable “to accelerate construction. The plan implemented a year ago and a half Valerie Pecresse and Christine Boutin (then Minister of Housing) It was ambitious 620 million euros released in 2012 and the promise of 5,000 housing units built each year, which s ‘add 7000 pardons. But the start was slow and the delay penalty since 2004 to be filled.

Only the year 2009-2010 the plan objectives Anciaux will, for the first time filled. To achieve this, all solutions are good to take. Thus, from the announcement of the reform of the military card, the Ministry of Higher Education signed an agreement with the defense for a reassignment barracks released. The protocol for fifteen towns close to a university site and is expected to provide 6000 dwellings. At present, some 34 places in Arras, 100 and 75 in Marseille Versailles that are created, before Tours and Limoges.

Failures marchélocatif private

The agreement Morin Pécresse, as the development of modular housing, responds in fact the two key problems for the state: the lack of available land and construction delays.

But these initiatives are not enough to offset the shortcomings of the private rental market to which fall back nine in ten students. The roommate, very popular in countries of Northern Europe, and offers less expensive options for those involved, is practiced by only 7% of French students, lack of donors. A building which would have to address Appearing Benedict, Secretary of State for Housing.

The student population increased from 400,000 to 2 million in forty years. Today 60% of a class that has access to higher education and aspires to autonomy.

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