Housing

You’ve been accepted at Sciences Po, congratulations!
You seek housing. In Paris, like in any major city, it’s not always easy to find a place to live. But don’t worry, students always end up finding something.

Students on Paris campus
To help you in your search, the housing information office of the student orientation service is opened to you:

As a reminder

To assist you in your search various ways of research are proposed as well as advices regarding housing on your arrival :

• offers by real estate agencies (on top of this page) accessible with ID Sciences Po: listings renewed each week during back to school periods
• BDE (Sciences Po Student Union) in connection with the Social Assistance department maintains a central listing offers from private landlords. Be sure to contact them : http://www.bdescpo.com/ : it is necessary to adhere to BDE (see details on the site) to get an access code that allows the access, unlimited connections, to the regularly updated file
• the "useful links" (column shaded to the left of this page) propose extensive information including direct links with the private dormitories (partnership with some residences under specific conditions), contacts of homestays and other specialized sites
• Information about the rental contract (lease) and its annexes : state of flat(entry and exit) and inventory, (models are available for downloading) and advices on “how to organize your visits. "

This website includes the following pages:

• Facing the cost of housing: Do you know about the APL, the ALS, and the Loca-Pass?
  
  
• Why sign a lease?

• Security deposit, guarantor and insurance

• Shared occupancy: things to keep in mind

• Obligations of the tenant

• A well-organized search: the first visit

• Other useful links

If, as a foreign student, you wish to live with a host family or work as an au-pair, contact the “Accueil familial des jeunes étrangers” (Host Families for Foreigners”) association.

Students from Regional Campuses, for questions about housing, please contact directly:

French-German Campus in Nancy :
Elsa Grimberg (E-mail : elsa.grimberg@sciences-po.org)
Web Site

Iberian American Campus in Poitiers :
Laura Demeulemeester
(E-mail : laura.demeulemeester@sciences-po.fr)

The European Campus in Dijon :
Stéphanie Dumortier (E-mail : stephanie.dumortier@sciences-po.fr)

The Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Campus in Menton :
Annick Lutigneaux (E-mail : annick.lutigneaux@sciences-po.fr)

The europe-asia undergraduate program  Campus in Le Havre :
Sandrine Garnier (E-mail : sandrine.garnier@sciences-po.fr)