European Commission
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Have you heard of the 3-30-300 🌳 rule?

Everyone should be able to:

🌲 See at least 3 trees from their home
🌳 Have 30% tree canopy cover in their neighbourhood
🍃 Live within 300 metres of a high-quality green space

Trees help us cool down our towns in the summer, improve air quality and regulate the water cycle.

That’s why The EU Biodiversity Strategy commits to planting at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030.

Learn more ➡️ europa.eu/!RGwp7f
Godfrey642
@Godfrey642@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@EUCommission

Not happening in Melbourne Australia now that permits to build 10-20 storey highrises are being given out like smarties to overseas developers.
Concrete is clearly the most valuable commodity.

#BuildingPermits #highrisebuildings #housingcrisis #concrete_city #overseasdevelopers
Ms. Que Banh
@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Please don't call the cops on homeless folks, who you may see/run into at some parks, if they're not bothering anyone at all & are trying to keep to themselves. I've met several different homeless folks all around this large urban park & never felt scared around them. I sometimes bring them free foods & first aid supplies.

We desperately need more social & transitional supportive housing in #VictoriaBC. All municipalities should be working on this - together. This is a shared social responsibility & it crosses every municipal border. Demonizing & dehumanizing homeless folks hasn't helped at all - it is also very unkind & lacking of humanity.

#HouseTheHomeless#YYJpoli#BCpoli#CDNpoli#HousingCrisis#SocialHousing#TransitionalHousing#WarOnThePoor#PovertyIsNotACrime#ClassWar#PSA

Showing a footpath into forested area, off main park trails.
Showing a footpath into forested area, off main park trails.
Ms. Que Banh
@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Please don't call the cops on homeless folks, who you may see/run into at some parks, if they're not bothering anyone at all & are trying to keep to themselves. I've met several different homeless folks all around this large urban park & never felt scared around them. I sometimes bring them free foods & first aid supplies.

We desperately need more social & transitional supportive housing in #VictoriaBC. All municipalities should be working on this - together. This is a shared social responsibility & it crosses every municipal border. Demonizing & dehumanizing homeless folks hasn't helped at all - it is also very unkind & lacking of humanity.

#HouseTheHomeless#YYJpoli#BCpoli#CDNpoli#HousingCrisis#SocialHousing#TransitionalHousing#WarOnThePoor#PovertyIsNotACrime#ClassWar#PSA

Showing a footpath into forested area, off main park trails.
Showing a footpath into forested area, off main park trails.
AnneTheWriter
@AnneTheWriter1@universeodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

The visibility of homeless people on street corners, begging for food and housing, is an obvious sign that our economy is failing. I've seen a large increase in the number of people begging at intersections in my suburbs far outside of Chicago, steadily increasing since Covid lockdowns ended.

Dictators need to hide the homeless in order to hide their economic failures. (Also, without an address, the homeless can't vote, making them easier targets.)

Republicans have always preferred the more expensive "prisons and insane asylums" response to #homelessness , rather than the less-expensive and proven #HousingFirst solutions.

Much of this current White House statement on the subject tries to forestall and negate #HousingFirst discussions by demonizing the homeless and portraying them all as either insane or addicts, rather than just signs of an economy that is failing to meet the basic needs of millions of its citizens.

#Homeless#Homelessness#Housing#HousingCrisis @dangillmor
European Commission
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu  ·  activity timestamp last month

🏠 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.  
  
️🗣️ Have your say.  
A public consultation is open until 17 October. 
  
Ready to shape the future of housing in Europe?  
→ https://europa.eu/!6fHwB3

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A minimalist graphic with a textured white background. In the centre, the sentence “Housing is a right, not a privilege.” is repeated multiple times, forming the shape of a house. The top lines are in red, with the colour fading into black as the repetitions continue downward. At the bottom, the phrase appears once more in bold black text. In the lower right corner, there’s a simple outline of the EU flag with twelve stars in a circle.
A minimalist graphic with a textured white background. In the centre, the sentence “Housing is a right, not a privilege.” is repeated multiple times, forming the shape of a house. The top lines are in red, with the colour fading into black as the repetitions continue downward. At the bottom, the phrase appears once more in bold black text. In the lower right corner, there’s a simple outline of the EU flag with twelve stars in a circle.
BerlinFokus
@berlinfokus@berlin.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@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.

🤮
Mojo ♻️
@mojo@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Sometimes, the little guys win.
A property developer tried to muscle out vulnerable residents in Sydney’s inner east — but the court sided with justice. The boarding house stays. The community holds.
A small but powerful win for people over profit.

#housingjustice #sydney #paddington #nsw #auspol #housingcrisis

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-10/nsw-sydney-paddington-boarding-house-developer-court-loss/105515800
Mojo ♻️
@mojo@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Sometimes, the little guys win.
A property developer tried to muscle out vulnerable residents in Sydney’s inner east — but the court sided with justice. The boarding house stays. The community holds.
A small but powerful win for people over profit.

#housingjustice #sydney #paddington #nsw #auspol #housingcrisis

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-10/nsw-sydney-paddington-boarding-house-developer-court-loss/105515800
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Aaron Hendry ... set up an organisation, Kick Back, to offer wraparound support for young people sleeping rough, including 24/7 accommodation, health services, and legal advice ... He suggested New Zealand follow the lead of Wales, which trialled the 'Duty to Assist' legislation, which is a homelessness prevention strategy that's been successfully implemented to enforce the human right to housing."

#AmandaGillies, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/564850/nowhere-to-go-for-more-than-100-000-kiwis-the-worsening-reality-of-homelessness

#housing#HousingCrisis#DutyToAssist#Wales