While the construction work for the future Olympic Village has not been completed, the first completed building is now welcoming its first tenants before the whole complex is made available to the athletes during Paris 2024.
Paris 2024 is fast approaching and the Olympic Village will be one of the key venues for the event. A little less than 500 days before the opening of the festivities, the construction of buildings to accommodate the delegations continues in Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen and L’Ile-Saint-Denis. However, before the thousands of athletes occupied the premises during the Olympic Games and then the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the first occupants became familiar with this environment. Indeed, while the inauguration of the first building to have been completed took place on April 11, no less than 130 students from the Institut Supérieur de Mécanique de Paris were able to take possession of the Paulette Fost residence. One of the beneficiaries of these apartments confided that the rent was much lower than the average. “It’s a 22 m² studio with a PMR bathroom and I pay 470 euros including charges every month, confided Valentin in remarks collected by RMC Sport. I went from an unsanitary apartment with damp stains at 740 euros for 14 m² to this brand new 22 m², view of the Seine for 470 euros. I’m very happy to be here, plus I’m close to my school so I can’t ask for more. »
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The apartments requisitioned next December
However, the availability of these apartments will remain limited in time. In effect, these accommodations will have to be returned from next December in order to be fitted out specifically for the reception of the athletes during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, from July 26 to August 11, 2024, then during the Paralympic Games organized from August 28 to September 8, 2024. “If there are a few delicate cases or buffer times to organize, CDC habitat, which piloted the construction of this building, will be there to find them temporary rehousing solutions”, confided to RMC Sport the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra about the possible difficulties for students who have to leave during the year. President of the Organizing Committee (OCOG), Tony Estanguet confided that this use of the Olympic Village before Paris 2024 is not to displease him. ” As a former high-level athlete, I had the chance to live in an athletes’ village and having been a student, you can see that there are common points between the two “said the former three-time Olympic canoe slalom champion. Once the Olympic and Paralympic Games are over, students will be able to return to these apartments in the course of 2025.