The European Parliament renewed the mandate of the special Committee on Housing on Tuesday 7 July in Strasbourg by a vote by show of hands.
The committee will be tasked “to monitor the Commission’s response to its resolution of 10 March 2026 and to further promote the policy proposals put forward in that resolution, to keep mapping the existing relevant Union, national, regional and local housing policies with a focus on the availability of targeted instruments for social, sustainable and affordable housing in cities, islands and coastal and rural areas, to identify and propose priorities on all Union legislation relevant to housing and actively participate in the forthcoming housing simplification procedure that the Commission will deliver in 2027, as well as to assess potential barriers affecting the construction sector”.
The Left did not vote in favour of continuing this committee, which in its view has no means of action, and believes that the new direction taken, with a greater emphasis, among other things, on deregulation, is “worse than the previous one”, according to a source.
Link to the draft mandate: https://aeur.eu/f/mr1 (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)