Housing Solidarity Fund

The Fonds de Solidarité Logement (FSL - housing solidarity fund) offers financial benefits to residents of the metropolitan area who are having difficulty finding or keeping a home, or paying their utilities or energy bills (water, electricity or gas).
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Fonds de Solidarité pour le Logement areas of intervention

Direct financial aid

Accessing housing

  • Guarantee deposit
  • First rent
  • Agency fees
  • Home insurance
  • Meter opening fees of meters

Staying in your home

  • Unpaid rent
  • Charges

Staying supplied with energy and water

  • Unpaid electricity, gas, water

Social support measures

People experiencing difficulties in maintaining or accessing housing can also benefit, in addition to or independently of FSL financial aid, from support actions implemented by approved structures:

  • Housing search workshop
  • Housing-related social support measures: finding, settling into or staying in housing or preventing rental evictions
  • Access to temporary housing
  • Renewal or mediation actions between tenant and landlord

Who manages the Fonds de Solidarité Logement?

Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole manages FSL requests from people residing in one of the 31 communes of the Metropole.

The Fonds de Solidarité pour le Logement (FSL) is governed by metropolitan rules of procedure, drawn up in coherence with the Plan Départemental d'Action pour le Logement et l'Hébergement des Personnes Défavorisées (PDALHPD), which defines the conditions of allocation.

How can you benefit?

You must submit your FSL application to a social worker. Depending on your situation, your file may be put together on the basis of supporting documents provided and a social assessment. Your application will then be forwarded to the Métropole for review and decision by a multidisciplinary team.

In practice

Building/renovating

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Accommodation

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Request for planning permission

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