MEPs on the whole welcomed the European Commission’s announcements in favour of a European housing policy for the next five years, during a plenary session debate on Wednesday 9 October.
Many MEPs have stressed the social dimension of this policy. Liesbet Sommen (EPP, Belgian) said there was a need for “a strategy for affordable housing” and increased funding for the construction of “social housing”. The revision of the European framework for State aid could play a role in this,...