Students: Can you keep your accommodation during the summer?
Publié le 11 juin 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
As the academic year ends, do you know that you don't have to leave your student accommodation? How to store it during the summer? And if you leave, how do you proceed if you receive personalized housing assistance (APL)? Service-Public.fr provides information according to your situation.
Whether to keep your student accommodation during the summer
If you are staying in a Crous residence (Regional Centers for University and School Works), you can keep your student accommodation during the summer, usually until the end of August, provided you pay the rent. It is also possible to leave before summer if you do not want to pay rent during the summer period.
Warning
If you want to keep your Crous accommodation for the next academic year, you need to do an application for renewal on the internet, according to the calendar provided by your residence.
If you rent from an individual with a conventional furnished lease, and the landlord does not want to take over the property, the contract is automatically renewed from year to year.
You cannot keep the home if you have signed a student lease or a non-renewable mobility lease that ends in June. Get in touch with your landlord to find out how to renew your lease.
Can we collect PLA during the summer?
In any case, you must specify your situation for the summer at your Family Allowance Fund (CAF) in space
My Account
, on the website of the Caf or via the mobile application Caf - My Account.
The Caf asks you if you will keep your accommodation in July and August. In the absence of information, she considers that you leave before the end of June. You're not going to get any housing support for the summer.
You must declare:
if you keep your accommodation during the summer;
if you are permanently leaving your accommodation: in this case, enter your new address in the
My Profile
;
if you return this summer and you return there at the beginning of the summer: in this case you declare that you do not keep the accommodation but you do not change your address. Return to the premises will have to be reported in order for the PLA to be paid again.
Warning
To benefit from the APL, you must occupy your accommodation during at least 8 months within a year. So you have to leave less than 4 months.
FYI
APLs apply only to your accommodation located in France.
