Student Housing: Paris is The Third Most Expensive City in Europe. Now What?

You've seen the news published by Le Figaro Students (1) term of Student Housing: Paris is the third most expensive city in Europe. This is obviously related in any short-term housing, Paris is an expensive city. So what do we do? 

Already, there is an obvious problem of land management. It depends on the mayors, who have the power to grant permission (because e France, except the land is not buildable default). In response to this, we see, municipal forces in 2014, bloom in the programs of the candidates promise to build new halls (this is the case in the program of the outgoing Anne Hidalgo, read its 150 proposals (2), but also in that of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (3). 

But who can believe that the pressure on land will be seriously diminished by the construction of 3500 or 4000 or even 10,000 student rooms? There is nothing in the Vth district more than 87 000 students. 

The solution to the cost of student life in Paris obviously not through politics, but by the choices of students. 

Dare say students should stop succumbing to Jacobinism and centralism, and would be better to undertake studies, after thinking the same opportunity to study in smaller, less expensive cities. 

For example: How is it that the French students do not seek to study in Orleans or Caen? 

We must stop believing that there exists a right to study that should fund limitless taxpayer under pressure. Worse, the apparent low cost of university education, the level of fees, creates an illusion and hides the true cost of education. 

So, even before considering whether to study in Paris if you are a modest background, perhaps he should ask the question of the appropriateness of any short higher education (4). 

Just as negative about? Perhaps, but less than the reality that requires students who have not done their calculations, or have a problem, as Vivien G (5), as less violent than the hallucinating failure rate in the first cycle and less violent, yet, the fact that graduates are finding that degrees are not always sufficient in the context of our economy blocked. 

Anyway, the Socialists, who are trying to remove France from insolvency, decided to sacrifice some hopes of students for solid reasons, not just financial. They know the problems associated with the massification of higher education, they are the ones who encouraged since May 68 and under Mitterrand. Now they are backtracking by tackling easier: removing merit scholarships, abandoned dorms, etc.. Socialists know anyway very well that the student model in the city center is perfect for the elite but does not fit the profile of students from modest backgrounds. We are no longer in the XIII century at the time of the creation of the Sorbonne. 

In Paris in 2014, there is not that NKM or Anne Hidalgo. hope the other candidates, starting with Christian Saint-Etienne, will implement a program: 

    accelerated decentralization of Parisian facs (why the Sorbonne would not go to the country? Polytechnique HEC or not to have gone dead in Jouy-en-Josas and Palaiseau) 

    promotion of real information on the cost of student life in Paris 

rather than demagogic promises to build dorms in Paris.