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2017-2018 Housing guide 2014 www.uvsq.fr the different types of housing Contents the different types of housing CROUS university accommodation // p.9 Contracted student residence halls // p.18 Homestay and rental // p.30 Student hostels // p.32 Young workers’ hostels // p.33 Temporary or emergency accommodation // p.36 Adapted and accessible housing // p.37 students arriving in France Handy tips // p.40 Useful information // p.41 Required documents // p.43 To do before your arrival // p.44 Student welcome kit // p.45 practical information The future tenant’s key documents // p.49 Housing budget // p.52 Transports // p.57 Where to find help // p.58 Written and created by the Student Life accommodation department of Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. With the generous participation of ADIL, CLLAJ, YIJ service and all our partners. November 2017 Photo credit: Alexis Chézière©, Crous©, DirCom,© Vie étudiante©, iStockphoto©, Jan Hodac©, Thinkstock© 3 housing guide the different types of housing Housing at UVSQ The university’s housing platform UVSQ University has created this guide to help you in your housing search process. In addition, we have developed a unique platform to make your accommodation search easier: housing. As a future student at UVSQ, you can use the university’s uvsq.fr/en/. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines area provides a similar housing website to help you in the following situations: platform for its territory: sqy.lokaviz.fr. > Find a place to rent or share in France and abroad Since September 2017, a CROUS office (regional student > Find a place to sublet in France and abroad assistance office) has opened at Marta Pan Student Centre to > Find a temporary room in France and abroad answer all your questions about university accommodation and Thousands of housing opportunities from private owners, scholarships based on social criteria. residence halls or estate agents are available in the university’s various locations. As the student housing stock is limited in Paris area, you will increase your chances to find housing by starting your searches as early as May / June before the start of the academic year and Already a student? making several applications for accommodation! Login to the platform clicking on the “Student login”, then “Log If you wish to make suggestions to improve this guide or signal potential erroneous in with Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines” information, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please note that rent prices and commute time are given on an indicative basis. Non-contractual photographs. You have applied to UVSQ but are still undecided? Register using the registration key provided by the university Pascal Manegli Head of the housing department Are you a landlord? You can place an ad directly on the platform in the landlord section. A multilingual support service is available 6/7 days to guide you through your housing search. +33 (0)1 80 92 64 01 – [email protected] Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines’s platform – sqy.lokaviz www.sqy.lokaviz.fr Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines now has a new housing platform. In partnership with Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines conurbation, the Student Life department offers to connect, via this database, students or interns with potential landlords to help them find furnished or unfurnished accommodation. 4 5 The different types of housing housing guide the different types of housing Crous university Location accommodation The CROUS, the regional student of the halls assistance office, manages the public student accommodation stock. To apply for accommodation, (future) students of residence need to fill in a student social file before their final exam results or before making their final choice of curriculum. Applications must be completed between January and April on the CROUS’s website. The Student Social File (DSE) allows you to apply simultaneously for accommodation and scholarships. Students are advised of the conditional decisions at the end of June. They need to check their file and send required documents by email within 8 days. Accommodations are available all year round at the Versailles CROUS. As part of its the department. (See social mission, the CROUS’s website) CROUS attributes accommodations in Most studios are furnished. priority to students with Several services may be scholarships based on available to students in social criteria. the residences. The Crous has created Housing opportunities Visale (guarantee / may be available for student rental deposit) to shorter stays (during an make it easier for students internship); check the without a personal CROUS’s website to apply guarantor to find housing (p49). Applications for university 145 bis boulevard de la Reine accommodation must BP 563 be renewed every year. 78005 VERSAILLES Cedex +33 (0)1 40 61 62 00 Building manager, Residence halls in the [email protected] furnished paid parking reception Yvelines department are www.etudiant.gouv.fr listed below. You can also Internet access door code launderette in common rooms apply for housing outside bike storage NEW adapted housing lift room CROUS office at the Student Centre lounge security Open Monday to Thursday 9 am to 5 pm (closed at lunch time) Friday 9 am to 12 am cafeteria social space cameras A CROUS agent is here to answer all your questions about CROUS scholarships and housing. 8 9 housing guide the different types of housing Vauban residence Jean-Baptiste Adrienne Bolland Pozzo di Borgo hall Lamarck residence hall residence hall 1 boulevard d’Alembert residence hall 78280 GUYANCOURT ZAC du Cerf volant 2 avenue Pozzo di Borgo 3 rue du Théâtre 1526 rue Louis Blériot 92210 SAINT-CLOUD +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 78990 ÉLANCOURT 78530 BUC [email protected] +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Directions Sqybus 401, 410, 411, 412, 417 routes stop on Franche- Comté Bourgogne Transilien L line: la Verrière station (via bus or 15 min walk) To university Versailles campus Distance: approx. 50 min by bus and train Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines campus Distance: approx. 32 min by bus and train Directions Sqybus 465, 467 and BusM 307 routes stop on Étienne Directions Marcel Transilien L & U lines: Directions RER C / Transilien N and Saint-Cloud station Savac 262 B, 307 bus routes U lines: Saint-Quentin-en- stop on Cerf-volant Yvelines / Montigny-le- To university Versailles campus Bretonneux stations To university (via bus or 10 min walk) Distance: approx. 35 min Versailles campus by train and bus Distance: approx. 35 min To university by bus Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Versailles campus campus Distance: approx. 46 min Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Distance: approx. 40 min campus by bus and train by train Distance: approx. 24 min Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines by bus campus The hall is on campus. 10 11 housing guide the different types of housing La Fresque Jacqueline de René Cassin Jacqueline Auriol residence hall Romilly residence hall residence hall 10 rue Edmé Bouchardon residence hall 78000 VERSAILLES 4 place Mendès France 64 avenue Gaston Boissier 52 bis avenue Villeneuve l’Etang 78990 ELANCOURT 78220 VIROFLAY +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 78000 VERSAILLES +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 [email protected] +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 residence.rene-cassin@crous- residence.jacqueline-auriol@crous- residence.jacqueline-de-romilly@ versailles.fr versailles.fr crous-versailles.fr Directions Directions Near Chaville Vélizy RER C Phébus to Versailles’s train station stations To university To university Versailles campus Versailles campus Distance: approx. 16 min walk Distance: approx. 30 min by bus Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines campus Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Distance: approx. 40 min campus by train and bus Distance: approx. 35 min by train Directions Phébus to Versailles train Directions stations Sqybus 401, 410, 411, 412, 417 stop on Franche-Comté To university Bourgogne Versailles campus Distance: approx. 5 min walk Transilien L line: La Verrière Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station campus (by bus or 15 min walk) Distance: approx. 55 min by train and bus To university Versailles campus Distance: approx. 55 min by bus and train Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines campus Distance: approx. 25 min by bus and train 12 13 housing guide the different types of housing Jean Zay Vincent Fayo Simone Weil The university residence hall residence hall residence hall residence hall is located near the parc de Sceaux and shops ; it is 10 55 avenue du Général de Gaulle 75 rue Vincent Fayo 5 place Joseph Frantz min away from Paris by public 92763 ANTONY CEDEX 92290 CHÂTENAY-MALABRY transport. 92100 BOULOGNE BILLANCOURT +33 (0)1 41 13 09 58 +33 (0)1 46 60 88 10 [email protected] +33 (0)1 80 73 04 00 Directions [email protected] RATP station: Pont de Sèvres (metro line 9) Tramway: Musée de Sèvres station (line T2) The hall includes 604 individual bedrooms for 154,20 € To university This university residence The hall includes: Versailles campus hall is located near shops, Distance: approx. 45 min - 155 studios, 11 of which are restaurants, the metro and by bus and train accessible for people with the Seine quays, along the reduced mobility Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Billancourt and Glacières campus Parks. - from 359 € to 478 € Distance: approx. 1h20 by bus and train Directions RER Station: La Croix de Berny Bus: route 379 to Vélizy 2 stops at Carrefour du 19 mars 1962 (Châtenay-Malabry) The hall includes 317 T1 studios To university (with separate kitchen) from Versailles campus 314 € to 537 € Distance: approx.