For the 2024 Olympics, the Crous will force students to vacate their accommodation

Students housed in the Crous d’Île-de-France residences will have to vacate their rooms for the months of July and August 2024, which worries the student unions.

This is a new controversy that stains the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. With just over a year to go until the opening ceremony, students learned on Thursday, May 11 that they, too, were expected to contribute to the effort.

Thus, on her Twitter account, Crous announced that she will make some student accommodation available for the months of July and August 2024, during the period of the competition (which will take place from 26 July to 11 August). They will then have to vacate their room.

The residences must be “empty of any inhabitant since 1^um July 2024”, as stated in an email received from the students. Al Crous, in fact, was asked by the State to provide lodgings to host volunteers or even partners of the Games.

More than 3,000 homes affected

According to the organization, summer is a time when 30% of student accommodation is empty, which would make up around 18,000 places. Second The worldthe Ministry of Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games estimates that 3,000 housing units are affected by these requisition measures.

Nevertheless, the Crous promises that all students who will not have a housing solution for the summer period will automatically be relocated to other residences. They will also be guaranteed to find their place by the start of the academic year in September 2024.

However, this announcement worries many students, but also the student unions, who are demanding that only vacant housing be requisitioned. In a press release, the Unef also requests that the state provide financial support for the rental of Crous rooms so as not to further widen the deficit of these public services “.

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