What are the conditions for obtaining social housing?
Verified 08 November 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
To get social housing (or housing), you have to apply for it and not exceed a maximum income. This maximum amount depends in particular on the number of persons to be accommodated and the location of the dwelling.
For accommodation in a metropolis
You must indicate all persons who will live in the dwelling:
- You (applicant)
- Your coapplicant : Civil partnership or partner or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children on your or your tax notice coapplicant
These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 years of age (including in alternative care if reported at the home of each parent), students under 25 years of age and persons with a mobility disability inclusion card (or disability card).
If you wish to live with another person only those you will live together accommodation colocation.
Your roommates can be:
- family members (only cousin, cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece)
- or people who don't belong to your family (friends, work colleagues,...).
You must specify roommates on your application for social housing. In addition, each of them must apply for social housing, where all other roommates are listed.
You can make your application file online or with the form to be filed on site.
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Online
You are French
You must log in to the online request site:
Online social housing application
FYI
if you are under guardianship or guardianship, provide the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgement
You can get help with your online file:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This assistance cannot provide you with information on the status of an ongoing social housing application
You are European
If you are a citizen of another country EU or EEA, or if you are Swiss, you must log in to the online application site
You must log in to the online request site:
Online social housing application
FYI
if you are under guardianship or guardianship, provide the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgement
Help with your online application is available:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This assistance cannot provide you with information on the status of an ongoing social housing application
You are of another nationality
You must provide a scan of one of the following documents:
- Residence permit (resident card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application to renew your residence permit
- Receipt for a one-month renewable asylum application
- Recorded with the has been granted refugee status
- Recorded with the obtained subsidiary protection or recognised stateless
FYI
if you are under guardianship or guardianship, provide the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgement
You must log in to the online request site:
Online social housing application
You can get help with your online file:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This assistance cannot provide you with information on the status of an ongoing social housing application
With the form to be deposited on the spot (at the ticket office)
You are French
You must provide at the counter:
- Cerfa Form 14069
- Copy of your identity card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or guardianship, copy of the guardianship or guardianship judgement
To find out the list of counters where to place your file:
Social housing application window
FYI
you can also get help with your case.
You are European
If you are a citizen of another country EU or EEA, or if you are Swiss, you must provide at the cash register:
- Cerfa Form 14069
- Copy of your identity card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or guardianship, copy of the guardianship or guardianship judgement
To find out the list of counters where to place your file:
Social housing application window
FYI
you can also get help with your case.
You are of another nationality
You must provide at the cash register:
- Cerfa Form 14069
- Copy of a residence permit (resident card or residence card) or receipt of the application
- If you are under guardianship or guardianship, copy of the guardianship or guardianship judgement
To find out the list of counters where to place your file:
Social housing application window
FYI
you can also get help with your case.
Wait Time Estimation
The waiting time before a house is offered to you is very variable. It depends:
- your personal situation (for example, the request of a person with a disability, a lack of housing, a lack of housing, a threat of expulsion or a victim of violence is a priority)
- and the type of accommodation (number of rooms, whether or not shared) and the municipality requested. It is possible to consult number of social housing units for each municipality.
Waiting for a house
Within 11 months of filing your application, you must renew. If you don't, she'll deleted (deleted).
In case of abnormally long waiting time, you can right to objectable housing.
FYI
upon receipt of the registration certificate demand for social housing, certain persons may assert their right to opposable housing. This should enable them to obtain housing more quickly.
For an overseas accommodation
The overseas territories include Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte and Saint-Martin.
Am I eligible for social housing?
Maximum
To get accommodation, the total of annual revenues of persons to lodge must not exceed a maximum amount.
The annual income is reference tax income of year n-2, which is recorded on the notice of taxation of year n-1. For a housing application made in 2022, it is reference tax revenues for 2020, listed on the 2021 tax notice.
The persons to lodge are:
- You (applicant)
- Your coapplicant : Civil partnership or partner or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children on your or your tax notice coapplicant
These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 years of age (including in alternative care if reported at the home of each parent), students under 25 years of age and persons with a mobility disability inclusion card (or disability card).
FYI
The roommate shall not be counted as persons to lodge.
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General case
1 person to stay
Total 2020 revenues must not exceed €24,733
2 people to stay
Person Types | 2020 Maximum Total Annual Revenue |
|---|---|
2 people | €33,030 |
Young couple | €39,720 |
1 single person with 1 dependant | €39,720 |
3 people to stay
Person Types | 2020 Maximum Total Annual Revenue |
|---|---|
3 people | €39,720 |
1 single person with 2 dependants | €47,952 |
4 people to stay
Person Types | 2020 Maximum Total Annual Revenue |
|---|---|
4 people | €47,952 |
1 single person with 3 dependants | €56,410 |
5 people to stay
Person Types | 2020 Maximum Total Annual Revenue |
|---|---|
5 people | €56,410 |
1 single person with 4 dependants | €63,575 |
6 or more people to stay
Number of persons | 2020 Maximum Total Annual Revenue |
|---|---|
6 people | €63,575 |
Per additional person | + €7,091 |
At least 1 person has mobility disability inclusion card
Number of persons to be accommodated | 2020 Maximum Total Annual Revenue |
|---|---|
1 person | €33,030 |
2 people | €39,720 |
3 people | €47,952 |
4 people | €56,410 |
5 people | €63,575 |
FYI
if your income exceeds these amounts, you may be offered alternative social housing, called PLI housing.
Maximum income exceptions
Your income can be valued differently, in some cases:
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Your income went down
If your current revenues have decreased by at least 10% compared to those of year n-2, it is possible that your revenues of year n-1 or those of the last 12 months will be taken into account. To do this, you need to provide documents showing the decline in your income. A certificate of honour drawn up by yourself is not accepted.
Example :
You apply in 2022 and your current revenues are lower than in 2019. If the decline is at least 10%, then it is possible that your 2021 earnings or those of the 12 months preceding your social housing application will be taken into account.
You no longer live with the person you reported your taxes with
If you apply in 2022 and your 2021 tax notice includes your income and that of the person you lived with couple by 2020, it is possible that only your income will be taken into account. To do this, you must be in one of the following situations:
- You're in the process of divorce. You must provide one of the following:
- Non-conciliation order
- Copy of the referral to the Family Court
- Evidence of a lawyer certifying that divorce proceedings by mutual extrajudicial consent are ongoing
- Decision of the judge or the order of protection issued by the Family Court (in case of emergency)
- You're divorced. You must then provide the divorce judgement or, in the case of divorce by mutual consent, the registered agreement.
- Your Civil partnerships: titleContent is broken. You must then provide the birth certificate with the entry Civil partnerships dissolved.
- Your husband has passed away. You must then provide a copy of the death certificate or family record.
- You are the victim of violence within your couple, attested by the receipt of a complaint
- You are married, a beneficiary of international protection and you reside alone in France
Your Civil partnership or partner is hosted in Ehpad
If your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent is housed in a Ehpad: titleContent, accommodation costs that you pay can be deducted from your income.
You must indicate all persons who will live in the dwelling:
- You (applicant)
- Your coapplicant : Civil partnership or partner or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children on your or your tax notice coapplicant
These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 years of age (including in alternative care if reported at the home of each parent), students under 25 years of age and persons with a mobility disability inclusion card (or disability card).
If you wish to live with another person only those you will live together accommodation colocation.
Your roommates can be:
- family members (only cousin, cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece)
- or people who don't belong to your family (friends, work colleagues,...).
You must specify roommates on your application for social housing. In addition, each of them must apply for social housing, where all other roommates are listed.
You can make your application file online or with the form to be filed on site.
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Online
You are French
You must log in to the online request site:
Online social housing application
FYI
if you are under guardianship or guardianship, provide the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgement
You can get help with your online file:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This assistance cannot provide you with information on the status of an ongoing social housing application
You are European
If you are a citizen of another country EU or EEA, or if you are Swiss, you must log in to the online application site
You must log in to the online request site:
Online social housing application
FYI
if you are under guardianship or guardianship, provide the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgement
Help with your online application is available:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This assistance cannot provide you with information on the status of an ongoing social housing application
You are of another nationality
You must provide a scan of one of the following documents:
- Residence permit (resident card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application to renew your residence permit
- Receipt for a one-month renewable asylum application
- Recorded with the has been granted refugee status
- Recorded with the obtained subsidiary protection or recognised stateless
FYI
if you are under guardianship or guardianship, provide the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgement
You must log in to the online request site:
Online social housing application
You can get help with your online file:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This assistance cannot provide you with information on the status of an ongoing social housing application
With the form to be deposited on the spot (at the ticket office)
You are French
You must provide at the counter:
- Cerfa Form 14069
- Copy of your identity card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or guardianship, copy of the guardianship or guardianship judgement
To find out the list of counters where to place your file:
Social housing application window
FYI
you can also get help with your case.
You are European
If you are a citizen of another country EU or EEA, or if you are Swiss, you must provide at the cash register:
- Cerfa Form 14069
- Copy of your identity card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or guardianship, copy of the guardianship or guardianship judgement
To find out the list of counters where to place your file:
Social housing application window
FYI
you can also get help with your case.
You are of another nationality
You must provide at the cash register:
- Cerfa Form 14069
- Copy of a residence permit (resident card or residence card) or receipt of the application
- If you are under guardianship or guardianship, copy of the guardianship or guardianship judgement
To find out the list of counters where to place your file:
Social housing application window
FYI
you can also get help with your case.
Wait Time Estimation
The waiting time before a house is offered to you is very variable. It depends:
- your personal situation (for example, the request of a person with a disability, a lack of housing, a lack of housing, a threat of expulsion or a victim of violence is a priority)
- and the type of accommodation (number of rooms, whether or not shared) and the municipality requested. It is possible to consult number of social housing units for each municipality.
Waiting for a house
Within 11 months of filing your application, you must renew. If you don't, she'll deleted (deleted).
In case of abnormally long waiting time, you can right to objectable housing.
FYI
upon receipt of the registration certificate demand for social housing, certain persons may assert their right to opposable housing. This should enable them to obtain housing more quickly.
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
For a clarification on the award conditions
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The informants who answer you belong to the ministry in charge of housing and city planning.
Cost: Free Service
Attention: the service does not have access to users ' personal records and therefore cannot provide information on their status.
The service is available at the following times:
- Monday: 8:30 to 17:30
- Tuesday: 8:30 to 12:15
- Wednesday: 8:30 to 12:15
- Thursday: 8:30 to 17:30
- Friday: 1 pm to 4:15 pm
To get information
Departmental Agency for Housing Information (Adil)To determine where to apply for social housing
Organisation able to propose social housing
- Construction and Housing Code: Articles L441 to L441-2-9Conditions of award
- Construction and Housing Code: Articles L442-1 to L442-12Persons to be accommodated (Article L442-12)
- Construction and Housing Code: sections R441-1 to R441-12Conditions for the award: Article R441-1
- Decision of 29 July 1987 on the resource ceilings for beneficiaries of the HLM legislation and new State aidMaximum income
- Circular of 21 December 2018 for the presentation of the provisions for the immediate application of the law n°2018-1021 (Elan law) (PDF - 269.7 KB)Child under visitation (VI)
- Order of 1 August 2014 concerning the geographical zoning of communes (known as A/B/C)PLI: zoning (since February 1, 2015)
- General tax code, Annexe 3: Article 2l DPLI: Maximum revenue
- Construction and Housing Code: Section R304-1Zoning (A, A a, B1, B2, C)
- Decision of 20 April 2022 listing residence permits for foreigners applying for social housing
- Decision of 22 December 2020 concerning the application form for social rental housing and the supporting documents for the investigation of the applicationDocuments and supporting documents
- Decree of 14 March 2011 on resource ceilings and rent ceilings for social rental housing in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte and Saint-Martin.Overseas: Maximum income
- Know the area of the municipality: A, Abis, B1, B2 or C
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