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Higher education and research, Gabriel Attal

Student support: Universal rent guarantee and new student residences

Direction of change: creation of a scheme, compared with current law.

The lever. Means-tested grants, student housing, catering, autonomy allowance: amounts and eligible groups. Direction rule: ↑ more aid.

Words reported by Site de campagne, débats à Blois et Bourges: Face aux difficultés de logement des étudiants et des jeunes actifs, il propose notamment une garantie universelle des loyers et la construction de nouvelles résidences universitaires.1

Translation by the editorsFaced with the housing difficulties of students and young workers, he proposes in particular a universal rent guarantee and the construction of new student residences.

Words of Gabriel Attal reported by Site de campagne, débats à Blois et Bourges, 5 October 2026. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme.

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Universal rent guarantee and new residences with no number or amount: nothing to cost.

Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. Means-tested grants (bourses sur critères sociaux), not indexed. The highest tier is €6,335/year (unchanged since 2023). 662,000 grant holders in 2024-2025. Programme 231 Vie étudiante (student life): €3.2bn, 78% of it direct aid (PLF 2026). The second phase of the grants reform is suspended. Since 4 May 2026, the €1 meal has been open to all students in all university restaurants, without means testing (€50m from the State in 2026).

Horizon. full year 2032, €bn/year

Limits. The autonomy allowance would replace part of existing aid (€5.9bn to €6bn: grants, student APL, the additional half-share for tax purposes). Its net cost is therefore about €20bn to €24bn, with an estimation gap between the rapporteur (€30bn) and the minister (€25bn). The +10% option is calculated on 78% of €3.2bn. The €1 meal for all students has been in force since May 2026: a position calling for it is status quo. Its cost (€50m for eight months of 2026 according to the ministry) is part of current policies.

How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.

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  1. Site de campagne, débats à Blois et Bourges, 5 October 2026. Words of Gabriel Attal reported by this outlet: the text quoted is the article’s, not their exact words. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme. Read the source (Site de campagne, débats à Blois et Bourges).

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