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

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.
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.
European Commission
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

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
MWT
@mwt@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@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.
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.

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

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.