What are the conditions for obtaining social housing?
Verified 01 January 2024 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)
To obtain social housing (or low-cost housing), you must apply for it and not exceed a maximum income. This maximum amount depends in particular on the number of people to be housed and the location of the accommodation (Île-de-France, province, overseas).
Île-de-France
A simulator is available:
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Maximum amount
To obtain a dwelling, the total annual income of persons to be housed may not exceed a maximum amount.
The annual income is the reference tax income of year n-2, which is recorded on the tax notice for year n-1. For a housing application made in 2024, these are reference tax revenue for 2022, listed on the 2023 tax assessment.
The persons to be housed are the following:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : Civil partnerships' or cohabiting spouse or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among these: grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children figurative on your tax notice or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities of all ages, children under the age of 21 (including alternating care if declared at the home of each parent), students under the age of 25, and persons with a disability-inclusive mobility card (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
FYI
the roommate shall not be counted in the persons to be housed.
The maximum amount depends on the municipality where the social housing is located:
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Paris and neighboring municipalities
The municipalities bordering Paris are Aubervilliers, Bagnolet, Boulogne-Billancourt, Charenton-le-Pont, Clichy, Fontenay-sous-Bois, Gentilly, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Ivry-sur-Seine, Joinville-le-Pont, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Les Lilas, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Levallois-Perret, Malakoff, Montreuil, Montrouge, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Nogent-sur-Marne, Pantin, Puteaux, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis Sé, Saint-Maurice, Saint-Ouen, Suresnes, Vanves, Vincennes.
General case
1 person to stay
Total revenues for 2022 must not exceed €33,857
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
2 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €50,603 |
Young couple | €66,333 |
1 person alone with 1 dependent | €66,333 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
3 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
3 people | €66,333 |
1 person alone with 2 dependants | €79,197 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
4 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
4 people | €79,197 |
1 person alone with 3 dependants | €94,227 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
5 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
5 people | €94,227 |
1 person alone with 4 dependants | €106,031 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
6 or more people to accommodate
Number of persons | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
6 people | €106,031 |
Per additional person | +€11,816 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
At least 1 person has the mobility card disability inclusion
Number of persons to be accommodated | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
1 person | €50,603 |
2 people | €66,333 |
3 people | €79,197 |
4 people | €94,227 |
5 people | €106,031 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
Rest of Île-de-France
General case
1 person to stay
Total revenues for 2022 must not exceed €33,857
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
2 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €50,603 |
Young couple | €60,826 |
1 person alone with 1 dependent | €60,826 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
3 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
3 people | €60,826 |
1 person alone with 2 dependants | €72,860 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
4 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
4 people | €72,860 |
1 person alone with 3 dependants | €86,251 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
5 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
5 people | €86,251 |
1 person alone with 4 dependants | 97,061 |
FYI
if your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
6 or more people to accommodate
Number of persons | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
6 people | 97,061 |
Per additional person | +€10,815 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
At least 1 person has the mobility card disability inclusion
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €50,603 |
Young couple | €60,826 |
1 person alone with 1 dependent | €60,826 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
Exceptions to the maximum amount
Your income can be valued differently, in some cases:
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Your revenues have gone down
If your current revenues have decreased by at least 10% compared to those in year n-2, it is possible that your revenues in year n-1 or those of the last 12 months are taken into account. To do this, you must provide documents proving the decline in your revenues. An attestation on honor drawn up by yourself is not allowed.
Example :
You apply in 2024 and your current revenues are lower than those of 2022. If the drop is at least 10%, then it is possible that your 2023 income or that of the 12 months preceding your social housing application will be taken into account.
You no longer live with the person you filed your taxes with
If you apply in 2024 and your 2023 tax notice includes your income and that of the person you were living with in pairs in 2022, 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 going through a divorce. You must then provide 1 of the following documents:
- Non-Conciliation Order
- Copy of the document referring the matter to the family court
- Proof from a lawyer that the procedure for divorce by mutual consent is ongoing
- Judge's decision or protection order issued by the Family Court Judge (in case of emergency)
- You're divorced. You must then provide the divorce decree or, in the case of divorce by mutual consent, the approved agreement.
- Your Civil partnerships: titleContent is broken. You must then provide the birth certificate marked Civil partnerships dissolved.
- Your husband passed away. You must then provide a copy of the death certificate or family record book.
- You are a victim of violence within your couple, attested by the receipt of a complaint
- You are married, a beneficiary of international protection and you live alone in France
Your Civil partnership or partner is hosted in Ehpad
If your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent is hosted in a Ehpad: titleContent, the accommodation costs which you pay may be deducted from your income.
You only have to do one file for the whole of Île-de-France
If the accommodation can be located in several communes of Île-de-France, you need to make only one file for all the departments of Île-de-France (75, 77, 78, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95).
Reminder
For accommodation in Paris, you can ask for 1 or more arrondissements, or indicate the entire city.
You must indicate all the people who will live in the accommodation:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : Civil partnerships' or cohabiting spouse or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among these: grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children figurative on your tax notice or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities of all ages, children under the age of 21 (including alternating care if declared at the home of each parent), students under the age of 25, and persons with a disability-inclusive mobility card (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
If you want to live with someone else whereas these, you will live together in the apartment in shared accommodation.
Your roommates may be:
- family members (only from your cousin, cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece)
- or people who don't belong to your family (friends, co-workers...).
You must specify your roommates on your application for social housing. In addition, each of them has to apply for social housing, where all the other roommates are indicated.
You can make your application on the internet or with the form to be filed on site
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On the Internet
You're French
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You must at least provide the following documents:
- Scan your ID card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or curatorship, scan of guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
You're European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You must at least provide the following documents:
- Scan your ID card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or curatorship, scan of guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
You are of another nationality
You must at least provide a scan of a residence permit. It must be one of the following:
- Residence permit (residence card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a one-month renewable asylum claim
- Receipt with mention has been granted refugee status
- Receipt with mention has been granted subsidiary protection or recognized as stateless
FYI
If you are under guardianship or curatorship, you must also provide a scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgment.
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
With the form to be deposited at the counter
You're French
You must complete form 14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following:
- Either your ID card (front/back)
- Either your passport
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
What are the points of contact where you can get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
You're European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must complete form 14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following:
- Either your ID card (front/back)
- Either your passport
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
What are the points of contact where you can get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
You are of another nationality
You must complete form 14069
You must at least provide a copy of a residence permit
It must be one of the following:
- Residence permit (residence card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a one-month renewable asylum claim
- Receipt with mention has been granted refugee status
- Receipt with mention has been granted subsidiary protection or recognized as stateless
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
What are the points of contact where you can get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
The waiting time for social housing varies depending on the department requested. For each department, it is possible to know the abnormally long waiting time to obtain social housing.
The waiting time before a room is offered to you varies greatly. It depends in particular on the following:
- Your personal situation (for example, the request of a person with a disability, poorly housed, without housing, threatened with eviction or victim of violence is a priority)
- The type of accommodation (number of rooms, whether shared or not...) and the municipality requested. You can consult the number of social housing units for each municipality.
Province
A simulator is available:
Know if you are eligible for social housing
Maximum amount
To obtain a dwelling, the total annual income of persons to be housed may not exceed a maximum amount.
The annual income is the reference tax income of year n-2, which is recorded on the tax notice for year n-1. For a housing application made in 2024, these are reference tax revenue for 2022, listed on the 2023 tax assessment.
The persons to be housed are the following:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : Civil partnerships' or cohabiting spouse or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among these: grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children figurative on your tax notice or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities of all ages, children under the age of 21 (including alternating care if declared at the home of each parent), students under the age of 25, and persons with a disability-inclusive mobility card (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
FYI
the roommate shall not be counted in the persons to be housed.
The maximum amount depends on the municipality where the social housing is located:
Province
General case
1 person to stay
Total revenues for 2022 must not exceed €29,435
FYI
if your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
2 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €39,309 |
Young couple | €47,271 |
1 person alone with 1 dependent | €47,271 |
FYI
if your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
3 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
3 people | €47,271 |
1 person alone with 2 dependants | €57,069 |
FYI
if your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
4 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
4 people | €57,069 |
1 person alone with 3 dependants | €67,133 |
FYI
if your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
5 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
5 people | €67,133 |
1 person alone with 4 dependants | €75,660 |
FYI
if your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
6 or more people to stay
Number of persons | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
6 people | €75,660 |
Per additional person | + €8,440 |
FYI
if your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
At least 1 person has the mobility card disability inclusion
Number of persons to be accommodated | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
1 person | €39,309 |
2 people | €47,271 |
3 people | €57,069 |
4 people | €67,133 |
5 people | €75,660 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
Exceptions to the maximum amount
Your income can be valued differently, in some cases:
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Your revenues have gone down
If your current revenues have decreased by at least 10% compared to those in year n-2, it is possible that your revenues in year n-1 or those of the last 12 months are taken into account. To do this, you must provide documents proving the decline in your revenues. An attestation on honor drawn up by yourself is not allowed.
Example :
You apply in 2024 and your current revenues are lower than those of 2022. If the drop is at least 10%, then it is possible that your 2023 income or that of the 12 months preceding your social housing application will be taken into account.
You no longer live with the person you filed your taxes with
If you apply in 2024 and your 2023 tax notice includes your income and that of the person you were living with in pairs in 2022, 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 going through a divorce. You must then provide 1 of the following documents:
- Non-Conciliation Order
- Copy of the document referring the matter to the family court
- Proof from a lawyer that the procedure for divorce by mutual consent is ongoing
- Judge's decision or protection order issued by the Family Court Judge (in case of emergency)
- You're divorced. You must then provide the divorce decree or, in the case of divorce by mutual consent, the approved agreement.
- Your Civil partnerships: titleContent is broken. You must then provide the birth certificate marked Civil partnerships dissolved.
- Your husband passed away. You must then provide a copy of the death certificate or family record book.
- You are a victim of violence in your relationship, attested by the receipt of a complaint
- You are married, a beneficiary of international protection and you live alone in France
Your Civil partnership or partner is hosted in Ehpad
If your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent is hosted in a Ehpad: titleContent, the accommodation costs which you pay may be deducted from your income.
You must make one application file per department
To obtain accommodation, you must make an application by department (except for the Île-de-France region).
For example, if you want a home in Aurillac (department 15) or Kourou (department 973) or Laon (department 02), you need to make 3 application files.
Reminder
For accommodation in Lyon or Marseille, you can ask for 1 or more districts, or indicate the whole city.
You must indicate all the people who will live in the accommodation:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : Civil partnerships' or cohabiting spouse or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among these: grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children figurative on your tax notice or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities of all ages, children under the age of 21 (including alternating care if declared at the home of each parent), students under the age of 25, and persons with a disability-inclusive mobility card (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
If you want to live with someone else whereas these, you will live together in the apartment in shared accommodation.
Your roommates may be:
- family members (only from your cousin, cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece)
- or people who don't belong to your family (friends, co-workers...).
You must specify your roommates on your application for social housing. In addition, each of them has to apply for social housing, where all the other roommates are indicated.
You can make your application on the internet or with the form to be filed on site
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On the Internet
You're French
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You must at least provide the following documents:
- Scan your ID card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or curatorship, scan of guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
You're European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You must at least provide the following documents:
- Scan your ID card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or curatorship, scan of guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
You are of another nationality
You must at least provide a scan of a residence permit. It must be one of the following:
- Residence permit (residence card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a one-month renewable asylum claim
- Receipt with mention has been granted refugee status
- Receipt with mention has been granted subsidiary protection or recognized as stateless
FYI
If you are under guardianship or curatorship, you must also provide a scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgment.
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
With the form to be deposited at the counter
You're French
You must complete form 14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following:
- Either your ID card (front/back)
- Either your passport
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
How to find the list of points of contact where to get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
You're European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must complete form 14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following:
- Either your ID card (front/back)
- Either your passport
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
How to find the list of points of contact where to get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
You are of another nationality
You must complete form 14069
You must at least provide a copy of a residence permit
It must be one of the following:
- Residence permit (residence card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a one-month renewable asylum claim
- Receipt with mention has been granted refugee status
- Receipt with mention has been granted subsidiary protection or recognized as stateless
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
How to find the list of points of contact where to get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
The waiting time for social housing varies depending on the department requested. For each department, it is possible to know the abnormally long waiting time to obtain social housing.
The waiting time before a room is offered to you varies greatly. It depends in particular on the following:
- Your personal situation (for example, the request of a person with a disability, poorly housed, without housing, threatened with eviction or victim of violence is a priority)
- The type of accommodation (number of rooms, whether shared or not...) and the municipality requested. You can consult the number of social housing units for each municipality.
Overseas
Overseas countries include Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte and Saint Martin.
Know if you are eligible for social housing
Maximum amount
To obtain a dwelling, the total annual income of persons to be housed may not exceed a maximum amount.
The annual income is the reference tax income of year n-2, which is recorded on the tax notice for year n-1. For a housing application made in 2024, these are reference tax revenue for 2022, listed on the 2023 tax assessment.
The persons to be housed are the following:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : Civil partnerships' or cohabiting spouse or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among these: grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children figurative on your tax notice or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities of all ages, children under the age of 21 (including alternating care if declared at the home of each parent), students under the age of 25, and persons with a disability-inclusive mobility card (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
FYI
The roommate shall not be counted among the persons to be housed.
The maximum amount depends on the municipality where the social housing is located:
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General case
1 person to stay
Total revenues for 2022 must not exceed €26,491
2 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €35,378 |
Young couple | €42,544 |
1 person alone with 1 dependent | €42,544 |
3 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
3 people | €42,544 |
1 person alone with 2 dependants | €51,362 |
4 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
4 people | €51,362 |
1 person alone with 3 dependants | €60,420 |
5 people to stay
Person Types | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
5 people | €60,420 |
1 person alone with 4 dependants | €68,094 |
6 or more people to stay
Number of persons | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
6 people | €68,094 |
Per additional person | + €7,596 |
At least 1 person has the mobility card disability inclusion
Number of persons to be accommodated | Maximum total 2022 annual revenues |
|---|---|
1 person | €35,378 |
2 people | €42,544 |
3 people | €51,362 |
4 people | €60,420 |
5 people | €68,094 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered to you, called FOLD housing.
Exceptions to the maximum income
Your income can be valued differently, in some cases:
Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement
Your revenues have gone down
If your current revenues have decreased by at least 10% compared to those in year n-2, it is possible that your revenues in year n-1 or those of the last 12 months are taken into account. To do this, you need to provide documents proving your revenue decline. An attestation on honor drawn up by yourself is not allowed.
Example :
You apply in 2024 and your current revenues are lower than those of 2022. If the drop is at least 10%, then it is possible that your 2023 income or that of the 12 months preceding your social housing application will be taken into account.
You no longer live with the person you filed your taxes with
If you apply in 2024 and your 2023 tax notice includes your income and that of the person you lived with in pairs in 2022, it is possible that only your income will be taken into account. To do this, you need to be in one of the following situations:
- You're going through a divorce. You must then provide 1 of the following documents:
- Non-Conciliation Order
- Copy of the document referring the matter to the family court
- Proof from a lawyer that the procedure for divorce by mutual consent is ongoing
- Judge's decision or protection order issued by the Family Court Judge (in case of emergency)
- You're divorced. You must then provide the divorce decree or, in the case of divorce by mutual consent, the approved agreement.
- Your Civil partnerships: titleContent is broken. You must then provide the birth certificate marked Civil partnerships dissolved.
- Your husband passed away. You must then provide a copy of the death certificate or family record book.
- You are a victim of violence within your couple, attested by the receipt of a complaint
- You are married, a beneficiary of international protection and you live alone in France
Your Civil partnership or partner is hosted in Ehpad
If your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent is hosted in a Ehpad: titleContent, the accommodation costs which you pay may be deducted from your income.
You must make one application file per department
To obtain accommodation, you must make an application by department (except for the Île-de-France region).
For example, if you want a home in Aurillac (department 15) or Kourou (department 973) or Laon (department 02), you need to make 3 application files.
Reminder
For accommodation in Lyon or Marseille, you can ask for 1 or more districts, or indicate the whole city.
You must indicate all the people who will live in the accommodation:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : Civil partnerships' or cohabiting spouse or partner, or a member of your family who is not dependent on you (only among these: grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister)
- People and children figurative on your tax notice or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities of all ages, children under the age of 21 (including alternating care if declared at the home of each parent), students under the age of 25, and persons with a disability-inclusive mobility card (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
If you want to live with someone else whereas these, you will live together in the apartment in shared accommodation.
Your roommates may be:
- family members (only from your cousin, cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece)
- or people who don't belong to your family (friends, co-workers...).
You must specify your roommates on your application for social housing. In addition, each of them has to apply for social housing, where all the other roommates are indicated.
You can make your application on the internet or with the form to be filed on site
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On the Internet
You're French
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You must at least provide the following documents:
- Scan your ID card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or curatorship, scan of guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
You're European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You must at least provide the following documents:
- Scan your ID card (front/back) or passport
- If you are under guardianship or curatorship, scan of guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
You are of another nationality
You must at least provide a scan of a residence permit. It must be one of the following:
- Residence permit (residence card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a one-month renewable asylum claim
- Receipt with mention has been granted refugee status
- Receipt with mention has been granted subsidiary protection or recognized as stateless
FYI
If you are under guardianship or curatorship, you must also provide a scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgment.
You must log in to the online application site:
Applying for social housing online (and renewing)
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
Applying for social housing online: getting help
By telephone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a fixed station)
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm
This support cannot inform you about the status of a current social housing application
With the form to be deposited at the counter
You're French
You must complete form 14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following:
- Either your ID card (front/back)
- Either your passport
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
How to find the list of points of contact where to get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
You're European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must complete form 14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following:
- Either your ID card (front/back)
- Either your passport
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
How to find the list of points of contact where to get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
You are of another nationality
You must complete form 14069
You must at least provide a copy of a residence permit
It must be one of the following:
- Residence permit (residence card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a one-month renewable asylum claim
- Receipt with mention has been granted refugee status
- Receipt with mention has been granted subsidiary protection or recognized as stateless
FYI
If you are under guardianship or trusteeship, you must also provide a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment
How to find the list of points of contact where to get help and file your file?
An online service is available:
The waiting time for social housing varies depending on the department requested. For each department, it is possible to know the abnormally long waiting time to obtain social housing.
The waiting time before a room is offered to you varies greatly. It depends in particular on the following:
- Your personal situation (for example, the request of a person with a disability, poorly housed, without housing, threatened with eviction or victim of violence is a priority)
- The type of accommodation (number of rooms, whether shared or not...) and the municipality requested. You can consult the number of social housing units for each municipality.
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
For clarification on the conditions of award
Telephone administrative information - Allo Public Service
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 files and therefore cannot provide information on their progress.
The service is available at the following times:
- Monday: 8.30am to 5.30pm
- Tuesday: 8:30 to 12:15
- Wednesday: 8:30 to 12:15
- Thursday: 8.30am to 5.30pm
- Friday: 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m
- Lundi : de 08h30 à 16h15
- Mardi : de 08h30 à 12h15
- Mercredi : de 08h30 à 12h15
- Jeudi : de 08h30 à 17h30
- Vendredi : de 13h00 à 16h15
To get information
Departmental Agency for Housing Information (Adil)To determine where to apply for social housing
Organization able to offer social housing
Conditions of award
Persons to be housed (Article L442-12)
Conditions of award: Article R441-1
PLI: zoning (since 1 February 2015)
PLI: Maximum Revenue
Zoning (A, AA, B1, B2, C)
Search tools
Online service
Service-Public.fr
Housing action
Ministry of the Environment