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Apply for social housing (HLM)
Verified 02 February 2026 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
To obtain social housing (or housing HLM), you must make your application entirely online or with a form to be deposited on site (at the counter). If your application is accepted, the waiting time for housing depends on where you want to live. We guide you in your approach.
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To apply for social housing in 7 points:
1 I am preparing my identity card, passport or residence permit
2 I choose where I want to live
3 I indicate who will live with me
4 I indicate my taxable income for the last 2 years
5 I specify my income today. For example, the amount of my salaries, my allowances....
6 I can make my request on the internet or send it by mail, or drop it off at the counter
7 Some reasons may make my application a priority. For example, being disabled, homeless, or being a victim of violence.
To live in Île-de-France
You can simulate your eligibility, given the amount of your income. Be careful, there are situations where this maximum amount can be exceeded.
Simulate your eligibility for social housing
You must use the following simulator:
Know if you are eligible for social housing
FYI
You can apply for social housing, regardless of the amount of your income and the result given by the simulator.
Know the maximum income amount
To obtain housing, the total of annual revenues of persons to be housed must not exceed a maximum amount.
The annual income is the reference tax income of the year n-2, which is entered on the tax notice of the year n-1. For a housing application made in 2026, these are reference tax revenue for 2024, listed on the 2025 tax assessment.
The persons to be housed are the following:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : spouse or partner of Civil partnerships or common-law 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 assessment or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 (including in alternate care if declared at the home of each parent), students under 25 and people with a mobility card disability inclusion (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
FYI
The roommate shall not be counted in persons to be housed.
The maximum amount depends on the municipality where the social housing requested is located:
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Paris and neighboring municipalities
The communes 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-Mandé, Saint-Maurice, Saint-Ouen, Suresnes, Vanves, Vincennes.
General case
1 person to stay
Total revenues in 2024 must not exceed €34,996
2 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €52,303 |
Young couple | €68,562 |
1 single person with 1 dependent | €68,562 |
3 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
3 people | €68,562 |
1 single person with 2 dependants | €81,858 |
4 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
4 people | €81,858 |
1 single person with 3 dependants | €97,395 |
5 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
5 people | €97,395 |
1 single person with 4 dependants | €109,595 |
6 or more people to stay
Number of people | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
6 people | €109,595 |
Per additional person | +€12,212 |
At least 1 person has the mobility card disability inclusion
Number of persons to be accommodated | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
1 person | €52,303 |
2 people | €68,562 |
3 people | €81,858 |
4 people | €97,395 |
5 people | €109,595 |
Rest of Île-de-France
General case
1 person to stay
Total revenues in 2024 must not exceed €34,996
2 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €52,303 |
Young couple | €62,871 |
1 single person with 1 dependent | €62,871 |
3 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
3 people | €62,871 |
1 single person with 2 dependants | €75,309 |
4 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
4 people | €75,309 |
1 single person with 3 dependants | €89,150 |
5 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
5 people | €89,150 |
1 single person with 4 dependants | 100,322 |
6 or more people to stay
Number of people | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
6 people | 100,322 |
Per additional person | +€11,177 |
At least 1 person has the mobility card disability inclusion
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
1 person | €52,303 |
2 people | €62,871 |
3 people | €75,309 |
4 people | €89,150 |
5 people | 100,322 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered, called PLI housing.
Know the exceptions to the maximum income amount
Your income may be assessed differently, in some cases:
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Your income has gone down
If your current income has decreased by at least 10% compared to year n-2, it is possible that your income from year n-1 or those from the last 12 months will be taken into account. To do this, you must provide documents attesting to the decline in your income. A certificate of honor written by yourself is not allowed.
Example :
You apply in 2026 and your current income is lower than in 2024. If the drop is at least 10%Then it is possible that your 2025 income or that of the 12 months preceding your application for social housing will be taken into account.
You no longer live with the person with whom you declared your taxes
If you apply in 2026 and your 2025 tax assessment includes your income and that of the person you lived with as a couple in 2024, 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 then provide 1 of the following documents:
- Order of Non-Conciliation
- Copy of the notice of referral to the family court judge
- Proof from a lawyer that the divorce procedure by mutual consent out of court 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 judgment 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 bearing the mention Civil partnerships dissolved.
- Your husband is dead. 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 spouse or Civil partnership partner is staying in a nursing home
If your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent is housed in a Ehpad: titleContent, accommodation costs that you pay may be deducted from your income.
To help you choose among the different municipalities, you can use this tool:
Social housing: key figures for each municipality
FYI
For accommodation in Paris, you can request 1 or more districts, or indicate the entire city.
You only have to make one file for the whole Île-de-France
If the accommodation can be located in several communes of Île-de-France, you must 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 request 1 or more districts, or indicate the entire city.
You must indicate all the people who will live in the accommodation:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : spouse or partner of Civil partnerships or common-law 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 assessment or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 (including in alternate care if declared at the home of each parent), students under 25 and people with a mobility card disability inclusion (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
If you want to live with another person that these, you will live together the shared accommodation.
Your roommates may be:
- family members (only among your cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece)
- or people who do not belong to your family (friends, colleagues...).
You must indicate your roommates on your request for social housing. In addition, each of them must apply for social housing, where all other roommates are listed.
You can make your application on the internet or with the form to be submitted on site
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On the internet
You are French
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
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 the guardianship or curatorship judgment
To strengthen your demand, it is recommended to also provide:
- The identity documents of the various persons in your household (double-sided identity card, passport or residence permit attesting to the regularity of the stay on French territory)
- Proof of income and resources, as well as those of the various people in your household (for example, salary slips, rent receipts and tax notices)
- Any document attesting to your professional or personal situation.
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
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 the guardianship or curatorship judgment
To strengthen your demand, it is recommended to also provide:
- The identity documents of the various persons in your household (double-sided identity card, passport or residence permit attesting to the regularity of the stay on French territory)
- Proof of income and resources, as well as those of the various people in your household (for example, salary slips, rent receipts and tax notices)
- Any document attesting to your professional or personal situation.
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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 at least provide the scan of a residence permit. It must be one of the following documents:
- Residence permit (resident card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a renewable one-month asylum application
- 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 the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgment.
To strengthen your demand, it is recommended to also provide:
- The identity documents of the various persons in your household (double-sided identity card, passport or residence permit attesting to the regularity of the stay on French territory)
- Proof of income and resources, as well as those of the various people in your household (for example, salary slips, rent receipts and tax notices)
- Any document attesting to your professional or personal situation.
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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 at the counter
You are French
You must fill in the form n°14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following documents:
- 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
To strengthen your demand, it is recommended to also provide:
- The identity documents of the various persons in your household (double-sided identity card, passport or residence permit attesting to the regularity of the stay on French territory)
- Proof of income and resources, as well as those of the various people in your household (for example, salary slips, rent receipts and tax notices)
- Any document attesting to your professional or personal situation.
What are the counters where you can get help and submit your application?
An online service is available:
You are European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must fill in the form n°14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following documents:
- 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
To strengthen your demand, it is recommended to also provide:
- The identity documents of the various persons in your household (double-sided identity card, passport or residence permit attesting to the regularity of the stay on French territory)
- Proof of income and resources, as well as those of the various people in your household (for example, salary slips, rent receipts and tax notices)
- Any document attesting to your professional or personal situation.
What are the counters where you can get help and submit your application?
An online service is available:
You are of another nationality
You must fill in the form n°14069
You must at least provide a copy of a residence permit
It must be one of the following documents:
- Residence permit (resident card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a renewable one-month asylum application
- 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
To strengthen your demand, it is recommended to also provide:
- The identity documents of the various persons in your household (double-sided identity card, passport or residence permit attesting to the regularity of the stay on French territory)
- Proof of income and resources, as well as those of the various people in your household (for example, salary slips, rent receipts and tax notices)
- Any document attesting to your professional or personal situation.
What are the counters where you can get help and submit your application?
An online service is available:
It all depends on how your case is handled. Indeed, your request can be accepted, or refused:
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If your application is accepted (validated)
You receive the certificate of registration of your request.
This attestation is proof that your file is accepted.
It states in particular: the following information:
- National unique number of your application (it certifies that your request has been taken into account and that it is old)
- The date of your request. It is the starting point for calculating your waiting period and the deadline for renewing your application if no accommodation has been offered in the meantime.
- List of landlords with housing in the municipalities you requested
- Case where you can enter the mediation commission, with the address of the commission and the date from which you can enter it
- Duration of validity of your request, how to update and renew it,
- Cases where your application can be canceled
- How to know the progress of your request
It shall be accompanied by an annex containing the following:
- Summary of your request and next steps regarding its treatment
- Supporting documents to be provided when your application is processed, which must be presented during the examination of the application, and additional supporting documents that the instructing service may request
Upon receipt of the certificate of registration :
- You can make your case enforceable right to housing (Dalo) to obtain social housing more quickly, if you are in certain situations.
- You must update your file in case of change of address, number of people to be housed, their income, type of housing requested... For this, you must either use the website, or fill in again a form by entering the national unique number of your application and file in a recorder window.
- Each social landlord can contact you to offer you accommodation corresponding to your request.
Within 11 months of the date of registration of your application, you must renew your application. If you do not, your request will be deleted (deleted).
After an abnormally long waiting timeHowever, if no proposal for social housing has been made to you, you can enforceable right to housing.
If your application is rejected (invalidated)
If your application is rejected, you will be informed of the reason for rejection.
You can make the necessary changes to your file and file a new application file.
The waiting period for social housing varies according to the department requested. For each department, it is possible to know the unusually long waiting time to obtain social housing.
The waiting time before you are offered accommodation is very variable. It depends in particular on the following:
- Your personal situation (for example, the request of a disabled person, poorly housed, homeless, threatened with eviction or victim of violence is a priority)
- The type of accommodation (number of rooms, shared or not...) and the municipality requested. You can consult the number of social housing units for each municipality.
As soon as your application is accepted, each social landlord can contact you to offer you accommodation corresponding to your request.
To verify that your application meets your needs, he may ask you to provide supporting documents, including documents proving the identity and income of the people to be housed:
Identity document or residence permit
For each of the people who will live in the housing, you must provide an identity document or residence permit.
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French
For an adult, a copy of the identity card (double-sided) or passport must be provided.
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
in the case of guardianship, a copy of the guardianship judgment must also be provided.
European (European Union, EEA, Switzerland)
For an adult from another member country of the EU or the EEA,, or a Swiss adult, a copy of the identity card (double-sided) or passport must be provided.
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
In the case of guardianship or trusteeship, a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment must also be provided.
Other nationality
For an adult, a copy of one of the following documents must be provided:
- Resident card (or renewal application receipt)
- Permanent Resident Card (or renewal application receipt)-
- Resident card with long-term resident endorsement - EU (or renewal application receipt)-
- Multi-year residence card (or renewal application receipt)
- Residence card "talent passport" (or renewal request receipt)
- Temporary residence card (or renewal application receipt)
- Algerian citizen's certificate of residence (or renewal application receipt)
- Receipt for an application for a residence permit as a residence permit marked "recognized refugee" or "granted subsidiary protection" or "granted subsidiary protection"
- Receipt for application for a residence card issued to spouses of refugees or beneficiaries of subsidiary protection who have arrived in the context of the family reunification procedure
- Certificate of extension of examination of an application for renewal of a residence permit, or certificate of favorable decision on an application for renewal of a residence permit
- Residence permit issued to an Andorran national
- Monegasque passport bearing a mention of the Consul General of France in Monaco as a residence permit
- Long-stay visa
- Provisional residence permit
- Provisional residence permit marked "beneficiary of temporary protection".
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
In the case of guardianship or trusteeship, a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment must also be provided.
Annual revenues
For each person who are going to live in the housing, you have to provide proof of income.
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You have a 2024 income tax notice (or equivalent)
General case
You must provide the French tax notice for 2025 indicating the reference tax income for 2024.
If income was collected abroad in 2024, the 2025 income tax notice issued abroad must be provided.
FYI
Documents written in a foreign language must be translated into French and income converted into euros.
You want only your income to be taken into account
If you want only your income to be taken into account, while the tax return includes your income and that of your Civil partnership or partner, you must add a receipt, depending on your situation:
- Intimate partner violence: receipt of complaint
- Death of Civil partnership or partner: death certificate or family record book
- Divorce proceedings: a copy of the notice of referral to the family judge or, in the case of divorce by mutual consent, proof from a lawyer that the proceedings are ongoing, or, in the case of an emergency, a decision of the family judge
- Divorce: a divorce judgment or a convention approved in the case of divorce by mutual consent
- Separation of a past couple: receipt of registration of the declaration of rupture to the registrar or the instrumental notary
- Civil partnership rupture: mention of the rupture in the birth certificate.
Your income has decreased by at least 10%
If your current income is lower of at least 10% the amount indicated on the tax notice to be provided, you can request that your taxable income for the last calendar year or your taxable income for the last 12 months preceding the date of signing of the lease be taken into account.
To do this, you must provide supporting documents. These may be, for example, pay slips, the certificate of the company accountant assessing the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration, the social security bulletin indicating the daily allowances...
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
You don't
You can't get this document
You can provide a certificate from another competent authority for the same year or, if necessary, from your employer.
You do not have to file a tax return
Proof of income received in the past 12 months must be provided.
These may be, for example, pay slips, the certificate of the company accountant assessing the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration, the social security bulletin indicating the daily allowances...
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Holder of international protection
Who is it?
- The holder of international protection (refugee, beneficiary of subsidiary protection, stateless person) granted by theOfpra: titleContent or the NADC: titleContent,
- Or the holder of the temporary residence permit marked "beneficiary of temporary protection".
What are the resources to justify?
It is necessary to justify the resources collected after its entry into France. This date shall appear on the receipt acknowledging the recognition of international protection, or on the residence card, or on the temporary residence card, or on the provisional residence document.
What evidence to provide?
The holder of subsidiary protection shall provide the decision of theOfpra: titleContent or NADC: titleContent concerning him.
Proof of income received in the last 12 months or, if necessary, since entry into France must be provided.
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Applicant recently arrived in France
If he cannot provide a French tax assessment or an equivalent document, he must provide proof of income received in the last 12 months or, if necessary, since entry into France. Documents written in a foreign language must be translated into French.
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Other supporting documents
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Family situation
Depending on your situation, the lessor may request:
- Married: family booklet or equivalent document demonstrating marriage
- In divorce proceedings: either a copy of the application to the family court judge, or in the case of divorce by mutual consent, proof from a lawyer that the proceedings are ongoing,
- Divorced: divorce judgment or agreement approved in case of divorce by mutual consent
- Past: certificate of registration of Civil partnerships: titleContent
- Rupture of Civil partnerships: titleContent : mention of the breach in the birth certificate
- Pregnancy: medical certificate of pregnancy attesting to pregnancy
- Early or adult minor under 21 years of age cared for before their majority by theAse: titleContent (up to 3 years after the last day of this assumption): attestation of the departmental council or extract from a judicial decision establishing the recourse to theAse: titleContent
- Application for family reunification: certificate of application if it is a family reunification
- Domestic violence: the emergency situation must be certified by a protection order of the family judge or a receipt of the victim's complaint, or a document drawn up by a social worker or an association.
Health, disability, loss of autonomy
- Disability and loss of autonomy: either a mobility card including invalidity mention or invalidity card for persons who hold it definitively, or a decision to award a right or benefit by a committee on the rights and autonomy of persons with disabilities, or a decision to award an invalidity pension by a social security body, or a decision to award theApa: titleContent
- Health problem: medical certificate.
Profession or studies
For each of the people who live you in the accommodation, the landlord can request:
- Employee: pay slips for the last 3 months or employer's certificate
- Self-employed: last balance sheet or certificate of the company's accountant evaluating the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration
- Retirement or invalidity pension: pension notification
- Return to work assistance allowance: payment notice
- Daily allowances: social security bulletin
- Apprentice: employment contract
- Student: student card
- Resumption of activity after a period of long-term unemployment: Jobseeker card or attestation of situation and any document attesting to the resumption of activity
- Maternal or family assistant (profession of the applicant or his spouse): accreditation
- Volunteer firefighter: attestation of the head of communal, intercommunal or departmental corps.
- Reconciliation of place of work: document proving the location of current or future employment
- Professional transfer: certification of the current or future employer.
Monthly income
For each of the people who live you in the accommodation, the landlord can request:
- Last tax notice (if available)
- Employee: pay slips for the last 3 months or employer's certificate
- Self-employed: last balance sheet or certificate of the company's accountant evaluating the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration
- Retirement or invalidity pension: pension notification
- Return to work assistance allowance: payment notice
- Daily allowances: social security bulletin
- Support received: judgment extract or other document demonstrating receipt of support
- Social and family benefits (AAH: titleContent, RSA: titleContent, family allowances, early childcare benefit, activity allowance, daily parental attendance allowance, AEEH: titleContent, family supplement, family support allowance, Aspa: titleContent...): attestation of the Caf: titleContent or MSA: titleContent
- Scholarship student: notice of award.
Current housing
For each person who will live in the dwelling, the landlord can request a document attesting his situation:
- Tenant: lease and receipt of rent or, otherwise, attestation of the lessor indicating that the tenant is up to date with his rents and charges
- Accommodation with parents or children, or with an individual: attestation of the person hosting, a social worker, an association
- Accommodated either in a housing structure, or in a home-dwelling, or a social hotel residence, or a therapeutic coordination apartment, or a university or student residence, or in the case of official housing, in particular a certificate from the manager or the employer indicating the end of the provision of housing
- Camping, hotel: either received, or attested by a social worker or an association, or certificate of domicile
- Homelessness, makeshift housing, slum: either a social worker or an association attestation, or a certificate of domicile
- Owner: deed of ownership, financing plan
- Accommodation not decent : either a document drawn up by a public service, a social worker, a building professional or an association, or photos, or a copy of the judgment of a court ruling on the indecency of the dwelling, or attestation of the Caf: titleContent/MSA: titleContent, or another document demonstrating the indecency of housing
- Unsuitable housing, i.e. premises unsuitable for housing, premises over-occupied by the landlord, premises dangerous because of use, unsanitary premises presenting or not an imminent danger, presence of lead, safety risk in an establishment receiving the public for total or partial use of accommodation, building threatening ruin, safety risk for common equipment in a collective residential building.
This situation must be confirmed either by an administrative decision (order of the prefect, mayor or president of theEPCI: titleContentformal notice or administrative closure), either a judgment of the court or a certificate of the Caf: titleContent/MSA: titleContentor any other document drawn up by a public service, a social worker, a building professional or an association demonstrating the situation of indignity, or photographs. - Accommodation taken over or put up for sale by its owner: letter of leave from the owner or judgment ordering the termination of the lease
- Housing at too high a cost: rent receipt or other document demonstrating the expenses allocated to housing
- Eviction proceedings: command to pay, or subpoena, or judgment ordering eviction, or command to leave the premises
- Accessing a property in difficulty: either a debt discharge plan, or an ongoing procedure certified by a social worker or an association, or another document demonstrating the difficulties.
Heritage
For each of the people who will live in the dwelling, the landlord can request a declaration of honor concerning the patrimony to estimate the amount of future housing assistance (APL, ALF, ALS).
Each may use the following model of sworn attestation:
For each available dwelling, the landlord selects several social housing application files.
It is a commission that decides on the allocation of housing according to the applicant's situation (disability, domestic violence, disadvantaged people...) and the length of time he or she has applied for it.
If the commission decides to allocate the accommodation to you, you can:
- Either accept the accommodation and sign a lease
- Either refuse housing. In this case, your request for accommodation remains valid until its date of renewal.
To live in the provinces
A simulator is available:
Know if you are eligible for social housing
Maximum amount
To obtain housing, the total of annual revenues of persons to be housed must not exceed a maximum amount.
The annual income is the reference tax income of the year n-2, which is entered on the tax notice of the year n-1. For a housing application made in 2026, these are reference tax revenue for 2024, listed on the 2025 tax assessment.
The persons to be housed are the following:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : spouse or partner of Civil partnerships or common-law 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 assessment or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 (including in alternate care if declared at the home of each parent), students under 25 and people with a mobility card disability inclusion (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
FYI
The roommate shall not be counted in persons to be housed.
The maximum amount depends on your situation:
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General case
1 person to stay
Total revenues in 2024 must not exceed €30,424
2 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €40,630 |
Young couple | €48,859 |
1 single person with 1 dependent | €48,859 |
3 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
3 people | €48,859 |
1 single person with 2 dependants | €58,986 |
4 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
4 people | €58,986 |
1 single person with 3 dependants | €69,389 |
5 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
5 people | €69,389 |
1 single person with 4 dependants | €78,203 |
6 or more people to stay
Number of people | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
6 people | €78,203 |
Per additional person | + €8,723 |
At least 1 person has the mobility card disability inclusion
Number of persons to be accommodated | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
1 person | €40,630 |
2 people | €48,859 |
3 people | €58,986 |
4 people | €69,389 |
5 people | €78,203 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered, called PLI housing.
Exceptions to the maximum amount
Your income may be assessed differently, in some cases:
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Your income has gone down
If your current income has decreased by at least 10% compared to year n-2, it is possible that your income from year n-1 or those from the last 12 months will be taken into account. To do this, you must provide documents attesting to the decline in your income. A certificate of honor written by yourself is not allowed.
Example :
You apply in 2026 and your current income is lower than in 2024. If the drop is at least 10%Then it is possible that your 2025 income or that of the 12 months preceding your application for social housing will be taken into account.
You no longer live with the person with whom you declared your taxes
If you apply in 2026 and your 2025 tax assessment includes your income and that of the person you lived with as a couple in 2024, 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 then provide 1 of the following documents:
- Order of Non-Conciliation
- Copy of the notice of referral to the family court judge
- Proof from a lawyer that the divorce procedure by mutual consent out of court is ongoing
- Decision of the judge or the protection order issued by the family judge (in case of emergency).
- You're divorced. You must then provide the divorce judgment 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 bearing the mention Civil partnerships dissolved.
- Your husband is dead. You must then provide a copy of the death certificate or family record book.
- You are a victim of violence in your couple, attested by the receipt of a complaint
- You are married, a beneficiary of international protection and you live alone in France
Your spouse or Civil partnership partner is staying in a nursing home
If your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent is housed in a Ehpad: titleContent, accommodation costs that you pay may be deducted from your income.
To help you choose among the different municipalities, you can use this tool:
Social housing: key figures for each municipality
FYI
For the city of Lyon or Marseille, you can request 1 or more districts, or indicate the entire city.
You must make an application file by department
To obtain housing, you must make an application file 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 must make 3 application files.
Reminder
For accommodation in Lyon or Marseille, you can request 1 or more districts, or indicate the entire city.
You must indicate all the people who will live in the accommodation:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : spouse or partner of Civil partnerships or common-law 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 assessment or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 (including in alternate care if declared at the home of each parent), students under 25 and people with a mobility card disability inclusion (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
If you want to live with another person that these, you will live together the shared accommodation.
Your roommates may be:
- family members (only among your cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece)
- or people who do not belong to your family (friends, colleagues...).
You must indicate your roommates on your request for social housing. In addition, each of them must apply for social housing, where all other roommates are listed.
You can make your application on the internet or with the form to be submitted on site
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On the internet
You are French
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
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 the guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
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 the guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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 at least provide the scan of a residence permit. It must be one of the following documents:
- Residence permit (resident card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a renewable one-month asylum application
- 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 the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgment.
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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 at the counter
You are French
You must fill in the form n°14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following documents:
- 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 know the list of counters where to be helped and to deposit your file?
An online service is available:
You are European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must fill in the form n°14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following documents:
- 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 know the list of counters where to be helped and to deposit your file?
An online service is available:
You are of another nationality
You must fill in the form n°14069
You must at least provide a copy of a residence permit
It must be one of the following documents:
- Residence permit (resident card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a renewable one-month asylum application
- 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 know the list of counters where to be helped and to deposit your file?
An online service is available:
It all depends on how your case is handled. Indeed, your request can be accepted, or refused:
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If your application is accepted (validated)
You receive the certificate of registration of your request.
This attestation is proof that your file is accepted.
It states in particular: the following information:
- National unique number of your application (it certifies that your request has been taken into account and that it is old)
- The date of your request. It is the starting point for calculating your waiting period and the deadline for renewing your application if no accommodation has been offered in the meantime.
- List of landlords with housing in the municipalities you requested
- Case where you can enter the mediation commission, with the address of the commission and the date from which you can enter it
- Duration of validity of your request, how to update and renew it,
- Cases where your application can be canceled
- How to know the progress of your request
It shall be accompanied by an annex containing the following:
- Summary of your request and next steps regarding its treatment
- Supporting documents to be provided when your application is processed, which must be presented during the examination of the application, and additional supporting documents that the instructing service may request
Upon receipt of the certificate of registration :
- You can make your case enforceable right to housing (Dalo) to obtain social housing more quickly, if you are in certain situations.
- You must update your file in case of change of address, number of people to be housed, their income, type of housing requested... For this, you must either use the website, or fill in again a form by entering the national unique number of your application and file in a recorder window.
- Each social landlord can contact you to offer you accommodation corresponding to your request.
Within 11 months of the date of registration of your application, you must renew your application. If you do not, your request will be deleted (deleted).
After an abnormally long waiting timeHowever, if no proposal for social housing has been made to you, you can enforceable right to housing.
If your application is rejected (invalidated)
If your application is rejected, you will be informed of the reason for rejection.
You can make the necessary changes to your file and file a new application file.
The waiting period for social housing varies according to the department requested. For each department, it is possible to know the unusually long waiting time to obtain social housing.
The waiting time before you are offered accommodation is very variable. It depends in particular on the following:
- Your personal situation (for example, the request of a disabled person, poorly housed, homeless, threatened with eviction or victim of violence is a priority)
- The type of accommodation (number of rooms, shared or not...) and the municipality requested. You can consult the number of social housing units for each municipality.
As soon as your application is accepted, each social landlord can contact you to offer you accommodation corresponding to your request.
To verify that your application meets your needs, he may ask you to provide supporting documents, including documents proving the identity and income of the people to be housed:
Identity document or residence permit
For each of the people who will live in the housing, you must provide an identity document or residence permit.
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French
For an adult, a copy of the identity card (double-sided) or passport must be provided.
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
in the case of guardianship, a copy of the guardianship judgment must also be provided.
European (European Union, EEA, Switzerland)
For an adult from another member country of the EU or the EEA,, or a Swiss adult, a copy of the identity card (double-sided) or passport must be provided.
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
In the case of guardianship or trusteeship, a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment must also be provided.
Other nationality
For an adult, a copy of one of the following documents must be provided:
- Resident card (or renewal application receipt)
- Permanent Resident Card (or renewal application receipt)-
- Resident card with long-term resident endorsement - EU (or renewal application receipt)-
- Multi-year residence card (or renewal application receipt)
- Residence card "talent passport" (or renewal request receipt)
- Temporary residence card (or renewal application receipt)
- Algerian citizen's certificate of residence (or renewal application receipt)
- Receipt for an application for a residence permit as a residence permit marked "recognized refugee" or "granted subsidiary protection" or "granted subsidiary protection"
- Receipt for application for a residence card issued to spouses of refugees or beneficiaries of subsidiary protection who have arrived in the context of the family reunification procedure
- Certificate of extension of examination of an application for renewal of a residence permit, or certificate of favorable decision on an application for renewal of a residence permit
- Residence permit issued to an Andorran national
- Monegasque passport bearing a mention of the Consul General of France in Monaco as a residence permit
- Long-stay visa
- Provisional residence permit
- Provisional residence permit marked "beneficiary of temporary protection".
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
In the case of guardianship or trusteeship, a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment must also be provided.
Annual revenues
For each person who are going to live in the housing, you have to provide proof of income.
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You have a 2024 income tax notice (or equivalent)
General case
You must provide the French tax notice for 2025 indicating the reference tax income for 2024.
If income was collected abroad in 2024, the 2025 income tax notice issued abroad must be provided.
FYI
Documents written in a foreign language must be translated into French and income converted into euros.
You want only your income to be taken into account
If you want only your income to be taken into account, while the tax return includes your income and that of your Civil partnership or partner, you must add a receipt, depending on your situation:
- Intimate partner violence: receipt of complaint
- Death of Civil partnership or partner: death certificate or family record book
- Divorce proceedings: a copy of the notice of referral to the family judge or, in the case of divorce by mutual consent, proof from a lawyer that the proceedings are ongoing, or, in the case of an emergency, a decision of the family judge
- Divorce: a divorce judgment or a convention approved in the case of divorce by mutual consent
- Separation of a past couple: receipt of registration of the declaration of rupture to the registrar or the instrumental notary
- Civil partnership rupture: mention of the rupture in the birth certificate.
Your income has decreased by at least 10%
If your current income is lower of at least 10% the amount indicated on the tax notice to be provided, you can request that your taxable income for the last calendar year or your taxable income for the last 12 months preceding the date of signing of the lease be taken into account.
To do this, you must provide supporting documents. These may be, for example, pay slips, the certificate of the company accountant assessing the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration, the social security bulletin indicating the daily allowances...
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
You don't
You can't get this document
You can provide a certificate from another competent authority for the same year or, if necessary, from your employer.
You do not have to file a tax return
Proof of income received in the past 12 months must be provided.
These may be, for example, pay slips, the certificate of the company accountant assessing the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration, the social security bulletin indicating the daily allowances...
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Holder of international protection
Who is it?
- The holder of international protection (refugee, beneficiary of subsidiary protection, stateless person) granted by theOfpra: titleContent or the NADC: titleContent,
- Or the holder of the temporary residence permit marked "beneficiary of temporary protection".
What are the resources to justify?
It is necessary to justify the resources collected after its entry into France. This date shall appear on the receipt acknowledging the recognition of international protection, or on the residence card, or on the temporary residence card, or on the provisional residence document.
What evidence to provide?
The holder of subsidiary protection shall provide the decision of theOfpra: titleContent or NADC: titleContent concerning him.
Proof of income received in the last 12 months or, if necessary, since entry into France must be provided.
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Applicant recently arrived in France
If he cannot provide a French tax assessment or an equivalent document, he must provide proof of income received in the last 12 months or, if necessary, since entry into France. Documents written in a foreign language must be translated into French.
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Other supporting documents
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Family situation
Depending on your situation, the lessor may request:
- Married: family booklet or equivalent document demonstrating marriage
- In divorce proceedings: either a copy of the application to the family court judge, or in the case of divorce by mutual consent, proof from a lawyer that the proceedings are ongoing,
- Divorced: divorce judgment or agreement approved in case of divorce by mutual consent
- Past: certificate of registration of Civil partnerships: titleContent
- Rupture of Civil partnerships: titleContent : mention of the breach in the birth certificate
- Pregnancy: medical certificate of pregnancy attesting to pregnancy
- Early or adult minor under 21 years of age cared for before their majority by theAse: titleContent (up to 3 years after the last day of this assumption): attestation of the departmental council or extract from a judicial decision establishing the recourse to theAse: titleContent
- Application for family reunification: certificate of application if it is a family reunification
- Domestic violence: the emergency situation must be certified by a protection order of the family judge or a receipt of the victim's complaint, or a document drawn up by a social worker or an association.
Health, disability, loss of autonomy
- Disability and loss of autonomy: either a mobility card including invalidity mention or invalidity card for persons who hold it definitively, or a decision to award a right or benefit by a committee on the rights and autonomy of persons with disabilities, or a decision to award an invalidity pension by a social security body, or a decision to award theApa: titleContent
- Health problem: medical certificate.
Profession or studies
For each of the people who live you in the accommodation, the landlord can request:
- Employee: pay slips for the last 3 months or employer's certificate
- Self-employed: last balance sheet or certificate of the company's accountant evaluating the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration
- Retirement or invalidity pension: pension notification
- Return to work assistance allowance: payment notice
- Daily allowances: social security bulletin
- Apprentice: employment contract
- Student: student card
- Resumption of activity after a period of long-term unemployment: Jobseeker card or attestation of situation and any document attesting to the resumption of activity
- Maternal or family assistant (profession of the applicant or his spouse): accreditation
- Volunteer firefighter: attestation of the head of communal, intercommunal or departmental corps.
- Reconciliation of place of work: document proving the location of current or future employment
- Professional transfer: certification of the current or future employer.
Monthly income
For each of the people who live you in the accommodation, the landlord can request:
- Last tax notice (if available)
- Employee: pay slips for the last 3 months or employer's certificate
- Self-employed: last balance sheet or certificate of the company's accountant evaluating the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration
- Retirement or invalidity pension: pension notification
- Return to work assistance allowance: payment notice
- Daily allowances: social security bulletin
- Support received: judgment extract or other document demonstrating receipt of support
- Social and family benefits (AAH: titleContent, RSA: titleContent, family allowances, early childcare benefit, activity allowance, daily parental attendance allowance, AEEH: titleContent, family supplement, family support allowance, Aspa: titleContent...): attestation of the Caf: titleContent or MSA: titleContent
- Scholarship student: notice of award.
Current housing
For each person who will live in the dwelling, the landlord can request a document attesting his situation:
- Tenant: lease and receipt of rent or, otherwise, attestation of the lessor indicating that the tenant is up to date with his rents and charges
- Accommodation with parents or children, or with an individual: attestation of the person hosting, a social worker, an association
- Accommodated either in a housing structure, or in a home-dwelling, or a social hotel residence, or a therapeutic coordination apartment, or a university or student residence, or in the case of official housing, in particular a certificate from the manager or the employer indicating the end of the provision of housing
- Camping, hotel: either received, or attested by a social worker or an association, or certificate of domicile
- Homelessness, makeshift housing, slum: either a social worker or an association attestation, or a certificate of domicile
- Owner: deed of ownership, financing plan
- Accommodation not decent : either a document drawn up by a public service, a social worker, a building professional or an association, or photos, or a copy of the judgment of a court ruling on the indecency of the dwelling, or attestation of the Caf: titleContent/MSA: titleContent, or another document demonstrating the indecency of housing
- Unsuitable housing, i.e. premises unsuitable for housing, premises over-occupied by the landlord, premises dangerous because of use, unsanitary premises presenting or not an imminent danger, presence of lead, safety risk in an establishment receiving the public for total or partial use of accommodation, building threatening ruin, safety risk for common equipment in a collective residential building.
This situation must be confirmed either by an administrative decision (order of the prefect, mayor or president of theEPCI: titleContentformal notice or administrative closure), either a judgment of the court or a certificate of the Caf: titleContent/MSA: titleContentor any other document drawn up by a public service, a social worker, a building professional or an association demonstrating the situation of indignity, or photographs. - Accommodation taken over or put up for sale by its owner: letter of leave from the owner or judgment ordering the termination of the lease
- Housing at too high a cost: rent receipt or other document demonstrating the expenses allocated to housing
- Eviction proceedings: command to pay, or subpoena, or judgment ordering eviction, or command to leave the premises
- Accessing a property in difficulty: either a debt discharge plan, or an ongoing procedure certified by a social worker or an association, or another document demonstrating the difficulties.
Heritage
For each of the people who will live in the dwelling, the landlord can request a declaration of honor concerning the patrimony to estimate the amount of future housing assistance (APL, ALF, ALS).
Each may use the following model of sworn attestation:
For each available dwelling, the landlord selects several social housing application files.
It is a commission that decides on the allocation of housing according to the applicant's situation (disability, domestic violence, disadvantaged people...) and the length of time he or she has applied.
If the commission decides to allocate the accommodation to you, you can:
- Either accept the accommodation and sign a lease
- Either refuse housing. In this case, your request for accommodation remains valid until its date of renewal.
To live overseas
The overseas territories correspond to Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte and Saint Martin.
A simulator is available:
Know if you are eligible for social housing
Maximum amount
To obtain housing, the total of annual revenues of persons to be housed must not exceed a maximum amount.
The annual income is the reference tax income of the year n-2, which is entered on the tax notice of the year n-1. For a housing application made in 2026, these are reference tax revenue for 2024, listed on the 2025 tax assessment.
The persons to be housed are the following:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : spouse or partner of Civil partnerships or common-law 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 assessment or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 (including in alternate care if declared at the home of each parent), students under 25 and people with a mobility card disability inclusion (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 your situation:
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General case
1 person to stay
Total revenues in 2024 must not exceed €27,382
2 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
2 people | €36,567 |
Young couple | €43,973 |
1 single person with 1 dependent | €43,973 |
3 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
3 people | €43,973 |
1 single person with 2 dependants | €53,088 |
4 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
4 people | €53,088 |
1 single person with 3 dependants | €62,450 |
5 people to stay
Types of person | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
5 people | €62,450 |
1 single person with 4 dependants | €70,383 |
6 or more people to stay
Number of people | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
6 people | €70,383 |
Per additional person | + €7,851 |
At least 1 person has the mobility card disability inclusion
Number of persons to be accommodated | 2024 Maximum Total Annual Revenues |
|---|---|
1 person | €36,567 |
2 people | €43,973 |
3 people | €53,088 |
4 people | €62,450 |
5 people | €70,383 |
FYI
If your income exceeds these amounts, another social housing can be offered, called PLI housing.
Exceptions to maximum income
Your income may be assessed differently, in some cases:
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Your income has gone down
If your current income has decreased by at least 10% compared to year n-2, it is possible that your income from year n-1 or those from 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 honor written by yourself is not allowed.
Example :
You apply in 2026 and your current income is lower than in 2024. If the drop is at least 10%Then it is possible that your 2025 income or that of the 12 months preceding your application for social housing will be taken into account.
You no longer live with the person with whom you declared your taxes
If you apply in 2026 and your 2025 tax assessment includes your income and that of the person you lived with as a couple in 2024, 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 then provide 1 of the following documents:
- Order of Non-Conciliation
- Copy of the notice of referral to the family court judge
- Proof from a lawyer that the divorce procedure by mutual consent out of court 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 judgment 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 bearing the mention Civil partnerships dissolved.
- Your husband is dead. 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 spouse or Civil partnership partner is staying in a nursing home
If your spouse or partner Civil partnerships: titleContent is housed in a Ehpad: titleContent, accommodation costs that you pay may be deducted from your income.
To help you choose among the different municipalities, you can use this tool:
You must make an application file by department
To obtain housing, you must make an application file 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 must make 3 application files.
Reminder
For accommodation in Lyon or Marseille, you can request 1 or more districts, or indicate the entire city.
You must indicate all the people who will live in the accommodation:
- Yourself (applicant)
- Your co-applicant : spouse or partner of Civil partnerships or common-law 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 assessment or that of your co-applicant. These include children with disabilities regardless of their age, children under 21 (including in alternate care if declared at the home of each parent), students under 25 and people with a mobility card disability inclusion (or disability card).
- Children rights of access and accommodation
If you want to live with another person that these, you will live together the shared accommodation.
Your roommates may be:
- family members (only among your cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece)
- or people who do not belong to your family (friends, colleagues...).
You must indicate your roommates on your request for social housing. In addition, each of them must apply for social housing, where all other roommates are listed.
You can make your application on the internet or with the form to be submitted on site
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On the internet
You are French
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
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 the guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
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 the guardianship or curatorship judgment
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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 at least provide the scan of a residence permit. It must be one of the following documents:
- Residence permit (resident card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a renewable one-month asylum application
- 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 the scan of the guardianship or curatorship judgment.
You must log in to the online application site:
Online Social Housing Application (and Application Renewal)
You can be helped by phone to make your case online:
Who shall I contact
By phone
0 806 000 113 (price of a local call from a landline)
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 at the counter
You are French
You must fill in the form n°14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following documents:
- 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 know the list of counters where to be helped and to deposit your file?
An online service is available:
You are European
You are a citizen of another EU or EEA country, or you are Swiss.
You must fill in the form n°14069
At a minimum, you must provide a copy of an ID
It must be one of the following documents:
- 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 know the list of counters where to be helped and to deposit your file?
An online service is available:
You are of another nationality
You must fill in the form n°14069
You must at least provide a copy of a residence permit
It must be one of the following documents:
- Residence permit (resident card or residence card)
- Receipt of the application for renewal of your residence permit
- Receipt for a renewable one-month asylum application
- 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 know the list of counters where to be helped and to deposit your file?
An online service is available:
It all depends on how your case is handled. Indeed, your request can be accepted, or refused:
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If your application is accepted (validated)
You receive the certificate of registration of your request.
This attestation is proof that your file is accepted.
It states in particular: the following information:
- National unique number of your application (it certifies that your request has been taken into account and that it is old)
- The date of your request. It is the starting point for calculating your waiting period and the deadline for renewing your application if no accommodation has been offered in the meantime.
- List of landlords with housing in the municipalities you requested
- Case where you can enter the mediation commission, with the address of the commission and the date from which you can enter it
- Duration of validity of your request, how to update and renew it,
- Cases where your application can be canceled
- How to know the progress of your request
It shall be accompanied by an annex containing the following:
- Summary of your request and next steps regarding its treatment
- Supporting documents to be provided when your application is processed, which must be presented during the examination of the application, and additional supporting documents that the instructing service may request
Upon receipt of the certificate of registration :
- You can make your case enforceable right to housing (Dalo) to obtain social housing more quickly, if you are in certain situations.
- You must update your file in case of change of address, number of people to be housed, their income, type of housing requested... For this, you must either use the website, or fill in again a form by entering the national unique number of your application and file in a recorder window.
- Each social landlord can contact you to offer you accommodation corresponding to your request.
Within 11 months of the date of registration of your application, you must renew your application. If you do not, your request will be deleted (deleted).
After an abnormally long waiting timeHowever, if no proposal for social housing has been made to you, you can enforceable right to housing.
If your application is rejected (invalidated)
If your application is rejected, you will be informed of the reason for rejection.
You can make the necessary changes to your file and file a new application file.
The waiting period for social housing varies according to the department requested. For each department, it is possible to know the unusually long waiting time to obtain social housing.
The waiting time before you are offered accommodation is very variable. It depends in particular on the following:
- Your personal situation (for example, the request of a disabled person, poorly housed, homeless, threatened with eviction or victim of violence is a priority)
- The type of accommodation (number of rooms, shared or not...) and the municipality requested. You can consult the number of social housing units for each municipality.
As soon as your application is accepted, each social landlord can contact you to offer you accommodation corresponding to your request.
To verify that your application meets your needs, he may ask you to provide supporting documents, including documents proving the identity and income of the people to be housed:
Identity document or residence permit
For each of the people who will live in the housing, you must provide an identity document or residence permit.
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French
For an adult, a copy of the identity card (double-sided) or passport must be provided.
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
in the case of guardianship, a copy of the guardianship judgment must also be provided.
European (European Union, EEA, Switzerland)
For an adult from another member country of the EU or the EEA,, or a Swiss adult, a copy of the identity card (double-sided) or passport must be provided.
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
In the case of guardianship or trusteeship, a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment must also be provided.
Other nationality
For an adult, a copy of one of the following documents must be provided:
- Resident card (or renewal application receipt)
- Permanent Resident Card (or renewal application receipt)-
- Resident card with long-term resident endorsement - EU (or renewal application receipt)-
- Multi-year residence card (or renewal application receipt)
- Residence card "talent passport" (or renewal request receipt)
- Temporary residence card (or renewal application receipt)
- Algerian citizen's certificate of residence (or renewal application receipt)
- Receipt for an application for a residence permit as a residence permit marked "recognized refugee" or "granted subsidiary protection" or "granted subsidiary protection"
- Receipt for application for a residence card issued to spouses of refugees or beneficiaries of subsidiary protection who have arrived in the context of the family reunification procedure
- Certificate of extension of examination of an application for renewal of a residence permit, or certificate of favorable decision on an application for renewal of a residence permit
- Residence permit issued to an Andorran national
- Monegasque passport bearing a mention of the Consul General of France in Monaco as a residence permit
- Long-stay visa
- Provisional residence permit
- Provisional residence permit marked "beneficiary of temporary protection".
For a minor, a copy of the family record book or birth certificate must be provided.
FYI
In the case of guardianship or trusteeship, a copy of the guardianship or trusteeship judgment must also be provided.
Annual revenues
For each person who are going to live in the housing, you have to provide proof of income.
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You have a 2024 income tax notice (or equivalent)
General case
You must provide the French tax notice for 2025 indicating the reference tax income for 2024.
If income was collected abroad in 2024, the 2025 income tax notice issued abroad must be provided.
FYI
Documents written in a foreign language must be translated into French and income converted into euros.
You want only your income to be taken into account
If you want only your income to be taken into account, while the tax return includes your income and that of your Civil partnership or partner, you must add a receipt, depending on your situation:
- Intimate partner violence: receipt of complaint
- Death of Civil partnership or partner: death certificate or family record book
- Divorce proceedings: a copy of the notice of referral to the family judge or, in the case of divorce by mutual consent, proof from a lawyer that the proceedings are ongoing, or, in the case of an emergency, a decision of the family judge
- Divorce: a divorce judgment or a convention approved in the case of divorce by mutual consent
- Separation of a past couple: receipt of registration of the declaration of rupture to the registrar or the instrumental notary
- Civil partnership rupture: mention of the rupture in the birth certificate.
Your income has decreased by at least 10%
If your current income is lower of at least 10% the amount indicated on the tax notice to be provided, you can request that your taxable income for the last calendar year or your taxable income for the last 12 months preceding the date of signing of the lease be taken into account.
To do this, you must provide supporting documents. These may be, for example, pay slips, the certificate of the company accountant assessing the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration, the social security bulletin indicating the daily allowances...
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
You don't
You can't get this document
You can provide a certificate from another competent authority for the same year or, if necessary, from your employer.
You do not have to file a tax return
Proof of income received in the past 12 months must be provided.
These may be, for example, pay slips, the certificate of the company accountant assessing the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration, the social security bulletin indicating the daily allowances...
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Holder of international protection
Who is it?
- The holder of international protection (refugee, beneficiary of subsidiary protection, stateless person) granted by theOfpra: titleContent or the NADC: titleContent,
- Or the holder of the temporary residence permit marked "beneficiary of temporary protection".
What are the resources to justify?
It is necessary to justify the resources collected after its entry into France. This date shall appear on the receipt acknowledging the recognition of international protection, or on the residence card, or on the temporary residence card, or on the provisional residence document.
What evidence to provide?
The holder of subsidiary protection shall provide the decision of theOfpra: titleContent or NADC: titleContent concerning him.
Proof of income received in the last 12 months or, if necessary, since entry into France must be provided.
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Applicant recently arrived in France
If he cannot provide a French tax assessment or an equivalent document, he must provide proof of income received in the last 12 months or, if necessary, since entry into France. Documents written in a foreign language must be translated into French.
Warning
A sworn statement is not accepted.
Other supporting documents
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Family situation
Depending on your situation, the lessor may request:
- Married: family booklet or equivalent document demonstrating marriage
- In divorce proceedings: either a copy of the application to the family court judge, or in the case of divorce by mutual consent, proof from a lawyer that the proceedings are ongoing,
- Divorced: divorce judgment or agreement approved in case of divorce by mutual consent
- Past: certificate of registration of Civil partnerships: titleContent
- Rupture of Civil partnerships: titleContent : mention of the breach in the birth certificate
- Pregnancy: medical certificate of pregnancy attesting to pregnancy
- Early or adult minor under 21 years of age cared for before their majority by theAse: titleContent (up to 3 years after the last day of this assumption): attestation of the departmental council or extract from a judicial decision establishing the recourse to theAse: titleContent
- Application for family reunification: certificate of application if it is a family reunification
- Domestic violence: the emergency situation must be certified by a protection order of the family judge or a receipt of the victim's complaint, or a document drawn up by a social worker or an association.
Health, disability, loss of autonomy
- Disability and loss of autonomy: either a mobility card including invalidity mention or invalidity card for persons who hold it definitively, or a decision to award a right or benefit by a committee on the rights and autonomy of persons with disabilities, or a decision to award an invalidity pension by a social security body, or a decision to award theApa: titleContent
- Health problem: medical certificate.
Profession or studies
For each of the people who live you in the accommodation, the landlord can request:
- Employee: pay slips for the last 3 months or employer's certificate
- Self-employed: last balance sheet or certificate of the company's accountant evaluating the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration
- Retirement or invalidity pension: pension notification
- Return to work assistance allowance: payment notice
- Daily allowances: social security bulletin
- Apprentice: employment contract
- Student: student card
- Resumption of activity after a period of long-term unemployment: Jobseeker card or attestation of situation and any document attesting to the resumption of activity
- Maternal or family assistant (profession of the applicant or his spouse): accreditation
- Volunteer firefighter: attestation of the head of communal, intercommunal or departmental corps.
- Reconciliation of place of work: document proving the location of current or future employment
- Professional transfer: certification of the current or future employer.
Monthly income
For each of the people who live you in the accommodation, the landlord can request:
- Last tax notice (if available)
- Employee: pay slips for the last 3 months or employer's certificate
- Self-employed: last balance sheet or certificate of the company's accountant evaluating the monthly salary received or any accounting document usually provided to the administration
- Retirement or invalidity pension: pension notification
- Return to work assistance allowance: payment notice
- Daily allowances: social security bulletin
- Support received: judgment extract or other document demonstrating receipt of support
- Social and family benefits (AAH: titleContent, RSA: titleContent, family allowances, early childcare benefit, activity allowance, daily parental attendance allowance, AEEH: titleContent, family supplement, family support allowance, Aspa: titleContent...): attestation of the Caf: titleContent or MSA: titleContent
- Scholarship student: notice of award.
Current housing
For each person who will live in the dwelling, the landlord can request a document attesting his situation:
- Tenant: lease and receipt of rent or, otherwise, attestation of the lessor indicating that the tenant is up to date with his rents and charges
- Accommodation with parents or children, or with an individual: attestation of the person hosting, a social worker, an association
- Accommodated either in a housing structure, or in a home-dwelling, or a social hotel residence, or a therapeutic coordination apartment, or a university or student residence, or in the case of official housing, in particular a certificate from the manager or the employer indicating the end of the provision of housing
- Camping, hotel: either received, or attested by a social worker or an association, or certificate of domicile
- Homelessness, makeshift housing, slum: either a social worker or an association attestation, or a certificate of domicile
- Owner: deed of ownership, financing plan
- Accommodation not decent : either a document drawn up by a public service, a social worker, a building professional or an association, or photos, or a copy of the judgment of a court ruling on the indecency of the dwelling, or attestation of the Caf: titleContent/MSA: titleContent, or another document demonstrating the indecency of housing
- Unsuitable housing, i.e. premises unsuitable for housing, premises over-occupied by the landlord, premises dangerous because of use, unsanitary premises presenting or not an imminent danger, presence of lead, safety risk in an establishment receiving the public for total or partial use of accommodation, building threatening ruin, safety risk for common equipment in a collective residential building.
This situation must be confirmed either by an administrative decision (order of the prefect, mayor or president of theEPCI: titleContentformal notice or administrative closure), either a judgment of the court or a certificate of the Caf: titleContent/MSA: titleContentor any other document drawn up by a public service, a social worker, a building professional or an association demonstrating the situation of indignity, or photographs. - Accommodation taken over or put up for sale by its owner: letter of leave from the owner or judgment ordering the termination of the lease
- Housing at too high a cost: rent receipt or other document demonstrating the expenses allocated to housing
- Eviction proceedings: command to pay, or subpoena, or judgment ordering eviction, or command to leave the premises
- Accessing a property in difficulty: either a debt discharge plan, or an ongoing procedure certified by a social worker or an association, or another document demonstrating the difficulties.
Heritage
For each of the people who will live in the dwelling, the landlord can request a declaration of honor concerning the patrimony to estimate the amount of future housing assistance (APL, ALF, ALS).
Each may use the following model of sworn attestation:
For each available dwelling, the landlord selects several social housing application files.
It is a commission that decides on the allocation of housing according to the applicant's situation (disability, domestic violence, disadvantaged people...) and the length of time he or she has applied.
If the commission decides to allocate the accommodation to you, you can:
- Either accept the accommodation and sign a lease
- Either refuse housing. In this case, your request for accommodation remains valid until its date of renewal.
Who can help me?
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