On Tuesday 16 December in Strasbourg, the European Commission presented a long-awaited European plan to promote affordable housing, in an attempt to remedy the problems of housing shortages, speculation on the property market and overtourism (see EUROPE B13773A18).
For Energy and Housing Commissioner Dan Jørgensen, housing is a “fundamental right and housing prices have become a social crisis”.
And the EU has done “very little in recent years” to prevent this crisis, even though...