A few days ago, some harsh words from the German Chancellor circulated, as it is currently understood. Rigid rules, paperwork, deadlines and deadlines. Are EU timessome will say. These ‘times’ lead the European Union to celebrate a “high level meeting“about the housing in november.
Yes, in November; within half a year.
It will be in Dublin, within the framework of a informal summit being prepared by Ireland within the semester of his rotating presidency of the EU. In this meeting of the ‘Twenty-Seven’, issues such as .
It was António Costa who has advanced the plan for six months. The president of the European Council announced this after meeting with the alliance of European mayors called Mayor for housing (or mayors for housing) and after having analyzed the growing pressure on the real estate market and its social and economic effects.
As Europa Press reports, For Costa, housing is “one of the most urgent and complex problems for millions of Europeans“and has warned that its lack of affordability is “at the center of citizens’ disaffection with democratic institutions“.
The president of the European Council has insisted that the housing shortage affects all sectors. Thus, it is “reducing labor mobility, affecting productivity and demographics”, consequences to which it adds the fact of exacerbating the “vulnerability” of groups affected by various circumstances.
For all these reasons, the ‘head’ of the heads of state at EU level insists on the need to keep housing on the EU political agenda, as well as in the framework of the negotiations on the next long-term community budget.
Aware that competition in housing corresponds mainly to the Member States, Costa has defended a “coordinated response” between the different levels of government. In this line he has pointed out that the future Affordable Housing Law prepared by the Commission It should offer tools to authorities to adapt policies to each context, including issues such as short-term rentals or speculation.
