The crisis in access to housing in the EU is “a social crisis. (...) It weakens our cohesion, and it also threatens our competitiveness”, commented Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union address on Wednesday 10 September.
While the European Parliament has set up a special committee on housing and the Commissioner for Energy has also been tasked with looking into these issues, the president of the Commission has announced a first ‘EU Housing Summit’ as well as a legislative...