“…They rather mirror a general situation in France, in which distribution on the housing market is far from being fair. Indeed, an important portion of the foreign population is kept out of the common law housing market (Bernardot, 2005(Bernardot, , 2008Faucheux-Leroy et al, 2014). The residential career is parallel to the legal one: housing has been increasingly used as a regulator of migration (Carrère & Lévy-Vroelant, 2019), and gaining a residence permit does not automatically entail getting a flat.…”