Refusal of housing allowance upheld for student couple

ATA/392/1997Court of Justice / Administrative ChamberJun 24, 1997Dismissed

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Omnilex summary

The applicant sought judicial review of a refusal to grant a housing allowance. The authority and the court relied on two grounds: she lived with her husband as a childless student couple, which was treated as a mobile household, and the nearby housing market offered a non-negligible number of comparable 3-room or smaller apartments at lower rents. The appeal was dismissed and the refusal remained in force.

Omnilex headnote

LGL.39 A; housing allowance; assessment of need and rent adequacy: the refusal of a housing allowance may be upheld where the household, considered as a mobile childless student couple, does not satisfy the conditions justifying subsidized accommodation, and where the relevant local market contains a significant number of comparable or smaller dwellings with lower rents. In such circumstances, the authority does not act arbitrarily in denying the subsidy on the combined grounds of household mobility and accessible alternative housing (consid. implicit).

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Descripteurs

LOGEMENT; SURVEILLANCE ETATIQUE; CALCUL; LOYER; MARIAGE; MODIFICATION(EN GENERAL); BASE DU REVENU; SUBVENTION; ALLOCATION DE LOGEMENT; LOGEMENT SOCIAL; IEA

Normes

LGL.39 A

Résumé

Rejet d'un recours contre le refus d'une allocation de logement au double motif que la recourante forme avec son mari un couple d'étudiants sans enfant, soit un couple mobile, et qu'il existe sur le marché, dans un rayon proche de celui où habite actuellement la recourante, un nombre non négligeable d'appartements identiques (3 pièces) ou plus petits avec des loyers inférieurs.

Keywords

housing allowancesocial housingrent assessmentstudent couplemobilitysubsidycomparable apartments

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Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Key legal question

Whether the refusal of a housing allowance was justified under the applicable housing-law criteria.

Extracted holding

Yes. The refusal was upheld because the applicant and her husband formed a mobile childless student couple, and comparable smaller or same-size apartments with lower rents were available nearby.

Extracted reasoning

The court accepted the authority's double rationale: the household's mobility as a student couple without children, and the existence of a not insignificant number of comparable apartments in the relevant nearby market with lower rents.

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