In September 2024, the Paris Olympic Games will leave “a material heritage” : 1,667 accommodations which will accommodate athletes and journalists during the competitions will be offered to students at the end of the international competition, announced the Minister of Higher Education, Sylvie Retailleau, In The ParisianOctober 26. 80% of these accommodations are located in Seine-Saint-Denis. The rest is in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (North), in the Lille metropolis.
The management of this housing will be devolved to private organizations, in particular social landlords, and not to the regional centers for university and school works (Crous), specifies in World the minister’s entourage.
Will the unexpected news be enough to restore the Olympic image that has been somewhat tarnished in the student community? In spring 2023, the academies of Paris, Créteil and Versailles were asked by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games to free up 3,000 university accommodations out of the 22,000 in Ile-de-France, during the events, pushing the usual tenants out. An initiative suspended by the summary judge of the Paris administrative court, in a decision of August 31, on the grounds that the Crous, upstream, are not permitted to “to organize the vacancy of these accommodations”. Only vacant rooms on 1er July 2024 can be rented to the Committee, according to the provisions made in the law of March 26, 2018, relating to the preparation of the event.
However, an appeal was filed before the Council of State by the Crous de Paris and is “still pending”has learned The world with the Crous, which does not wish to detail the arguments deployed. The ministry, for its part, considers that the summary judge did not “not invalidated the principle in substance, but in form” and states that “Everything will be done within the rules of law.”
Flat rate aid of 100 euros
The minister confirmed that a maximum of 2,200 students will be relocated. The move will be made “as close as possible to their place of study” and will result in the payment of a fixed aid of 100 euros. Two places for Olympic events will also be offered to each of the students concerned.
Two options were possible, reminds the World the entourage of Sylvie Retailleau, who would like “end the controversy”. The first consisted of distributing public officials accredited for the Olympic Games among the 30% of vacant places in residences during the summer period. “But this choice involved having these people, who will live with staggered schedules to the rhythm of competitions, coexist with students occupying a room because they are taking exams or working in the summer, which is not ideal”we justify.
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