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This article explores the question of employee housing from two distinct points of view. It first looks at how the issue is handled at various levels in the CFDT union and the new forms of housing-related action that have developed over the past two decades in France in response to the emergence of new social needs at the juncture between employment and housing. The article demonstrates how such actions reflect the logic of updating the finalities and modalities of public interventions on housing. It also seeks to understand the link between employment and housing insofar as it measures trade union actions against the new risks related to changes in the labor market, such as the increased insecurity of waged work and the increasing requirement for geographical mobility, and the concomitant need to create new means of providing security in housing and employment.