🏠 Housing is a right, not a privilege.
Yet affordable, quality homes are out of reach for too many across Europe - especially young people, families, and vulnerable groups.
The EU is acting with its Affordable Housing Plan: tackling structural barriers, boosting supply, and unlocking investment.
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Hi @ellent! Thank you for your comment. Indeed, while the main responsibility for housing lies with the local, regional, and national authorities, EU policies and funding programmes support various aspects of the housing market.
We are working alongside national, regional, local governments and other actors in a more coordinated manner to support them in their efforts in making affordable, sustainable, and decent homes available to everyone. Read more: https://europa.eu/!w4Pvhh
@EUCommission We have similar problems in New Zealand. The root cause of it all is that everyone has become accustomed to thinking that houses are investments. No. Houses are places to live. They are fundamentally tools for ... uh, housing. You should be able to buy one because you want to live in it, not because you want to "get on the property ladder." And nobody needs more than one.
@EUCommission I disagree. I don't think it's a right. I do think it's a sensible and frugal step in a society where no land is unowned, and only stupid and malicious societies would leave housing up to chance. But I don't think it's a right.
@EUCommission Yes, congrats on running a neoliberal market economy! It clearly works!
@EUCommission cool, so you'll ban housing real-estate as an investment, right? Right?
@EUCommission There are two things here, why banks have si many apartments just empty and why vulture funds are allowed to roam freely.
@EUCommission hahaha, si seulement ! c'est beau de rêver. Bah je sais pas moi, rendez l'encadrement des loyers obligatoire et indexez les sur les revenus moyens de personnes pauvres, rendez obligatoires les travaux de rénovation des passoires énergétiques... c'est pas si compliqué en fait.
@EUCommission housing is the last refuge for incapable investors in this phased out economy you have built this last 50 years beting it all to externalization. We di not expect you will/can/want solve the problem, as you are living from it, especially in Brussels.
@EUCommission I was halfway through the survey and had to open a new browser tab to search for the details the survey asked for. When I came back, all my input was lost. In future, surveys should save progress. However, I’m sceptical of the current neoliberal, neocolonial mob in the EPP having any interest in this topic anyway.
@EUCommission
Have your say ? 🤔
I'll start right here:
The @EUCommission together with other #EU regulations regarding #subsidies is forbiding #communities to invest in #PublicHousing & is in #neoliberal fashion #DeRegulating the #HousingMarket which has been and is THE MAIN DRIVER of our European #HousingCrisis.
You took affordable housing away from us! (Long ago.)
It must feel so satisfying for you people to mock us now over this.
Cynical and evil.
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@EUCommission Maybe you didn't see a house from outside, I can help you with that.
@EUCommission So that means investment housing and speculation will be banned immediately, right? Or is that a taboo because it would anger the rich sponsors and oligarchs that control the governments?
@EUCommission EU parliament is based on a country that housing actually is a privilege. Your secretary general is fueling housing monopoly in his own country.
I suspect these posts are just a pointless showcase to believe you are doing better than other countries. You are not, words don't match actions.
I suspect these posts are just a pointless showcase to believe you are doing better than other countries. You are not, words don't match actions.
@EUCommission
How many houses could have been built from the money the commission president threw out of the window for vaccines bought to irrational prices which were negotiated under secrecy, while the president keeps the public uninformed?
@EUCommission If you believed a word you're saying, we all would be living in a socialist country by now.
You all well know that food, water, housing, healthcare, electricity and transport need to be free for everyone. Yet you boast but never act.
IMPLEMENT SOCIALISM AND STOP KILLING PEOPLE THROUGH HUNGER AND COLD!
@EUCommission lol. I would appreciate if your actions would follow your words.
@EUCommission What does "unlocking investment" mean?
Hello @kerfuffle!
It covers a number of initiatives, like the Pan-European Investment Platform that is set up in a partnership with the European Investment Bank, to help private and public investments in affordable and sustainable housing. Also, our proposals for the next EU long-term budget would make it much easier to get funding for housing as well. More options for funding with specific conditions create incentives to build more affordable, sustainable and decent housing.
@EUCommission maybe we should invest more in public housing
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