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Access to housing in the EU has become problematic in recent years. Demography and urbanisation-related structural factors, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine, soaring energy prices, the cost-of-living crisis and (already high) housing prices that keep rising are preventing many people from accessing decent housing solutions. The lack of affordable housing supply only adds to this situation. These difficulties affect not only low- but now also middle-income households, as ...

Policymaking to alleviate energy poverty needs to find a balance between short-term remedies and the resolution of long-term drivers of energy poverty. EU policy might need to work towards a) finding a definition of energy poverty; b) supporting national policies financially through EU coordination; and c) setting minimum standards for energy efficiency of buildings and devices. This document was provided by Policy Department A at the request of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE ...

Dieses Themenpapier vermittelt einen Überblick über die soziale Wohnungswirtschaft im EU-Raum. Nach einer Einführung über die Definition der sozialen Wohnungswirtschaft in den Mitgliedstaaten wird die Reaktion des Sektors auf die Finanzkrise 2007-2008 ausführlich beschrieben. Außerdem werden die jüngsten Entwicklungen auf EU-Ebene der unterschiedlichen Interessen verdeutlicht, die innerhalb des Sektors in Einklang gebracht werden müssen: Einerseits muss für alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger angemessener ...