Student accommodation in the Greater Paris - Grand Paris Metropolis -

Among resident students 54% still live with their parent(s) and 46% are in independant lodgings compared with 52% in 1999. This increasingly late moving away from the family home is mainly due to the fall in the private rental stock, the competition of other tenants putting students at a disadvantage and the difficulty of access to specifically dedicated lodgings in a national context of insufficient, affordable housing as a result of a long period of rising sale prices and rents since the early 2000s, alongside the growing scarcity of rental properties.

For several years, the national targets to produce accommodation specifically for students has been ambitious but difficult to achieve. The 60,000 Plan, which aimed to produce 30,000 residency units in Ile-de-France between  2018 and 2022, managed only to deliver 12,602, 70% of which are in Grand Paris. However, social housing for students in the metropolitan area has risen significantly. 24,770 student accommodation units were financed between 2007 and 2022. This corresponds to an average annual production rate of 1,550 units. Of these  approved lodgings, 36% are concentrated in Paris, while Plaine Commune and Grand Orly Seine-Bièvre account for 26% of the totality of this authorised housing.

Today, 81,000 of the students living independently, are housed in a student residence managed directly by either the CROUS, a social landlord, a religious hostel or a private residence (Studéa, Studélites, YouFirst, Les Estudines, Néméa, Uxco etc.).
Areas within Grand Paris offer, on average, 7 social student accommodation places for every 100 residential students.