Lodging in France: The first step, is to contact the CROUS and the service of international affairs. The CROUS has an important supply of available lodgings: university residence (the most modest one), studio residences (greater rooms, in residence, with a separated kitchen and bathroom), bedrooms and apartments in a HLM (Habitat à Loyer Modéré), and apartments.

Attention, the CROUS are independent from one region to another one and the prices and services are not the same in all the country: in Paris, it is quite complicated to find a lodging proposed by the CROUS, therefore, simplest and fastest it is to go to the private real estate agencies, to a higher cost.