{"id":426800,"date":"2025-05-14T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/14\/crisi-abitativa-tinagli-gualtieri-sala\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:19:59","slug":"housing-crisis-local-authorities-and-eu-parliament-call-for-more-funds-from-the-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/14\/housing-crisis-local-authorities-and-eu-parliament-call-for-more-funds-from-the-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing crisis, local authorities and EU Parliament call for more funds from the Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Local authorities want a European plan against the housing crisis<\/strong>. The Committee of the Regions (CoR)<\/strong>, meeting in plenary session at the EU Parliament in Brussels, lobbies\u00a0the European Commission<\/strong> and calls for more resources for social housing<\/strong>\u00a0to be released immediately, but also, structurally, through the revision of the multi-year EU budget.<\/p>\n

The message addressed today (May 14) to the EU executive by the CoR is clear: there is a need for Brussels to take charge of guaranteeing “quality affordable housing” for citizens<\/strong> by providing local levels of government with the necessary support. On the one hand, local authorities say, a housing priority<\/strong> should be included in the next multi-year budget, which will cover the period 2028\u20132034 and whose negotiations will open in the second part of this year.\u00a0On the other hand, adequate\u00a0<\/span>resources must be found immediately to cope<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span>the emergency today<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CoR opinion, drafted by Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni Cuadrado<\/strong>, urges the EU executive to present an ambitious and very concrete action plan<\/strong> to work together with regions, provinces, and municipalities in tackling the housing crisis gripping the Old Continent<\/strong> (average increases of 48 per cent in house prices and 22 per cent in rental costs between 2010 and 2023). “Housing access<\/strong> has become\u00a0the\u00a0main<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0factor of inequality<\/strong> in Europe,” he points out.<\/p>\n

\"Kata<\/a>
Committee of the Regions President Kata T\u00fctt\u0151 and Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni Cuadrado (photo: Alain Rolland\/EP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By what means? It is not enough to redirect cohesion funds<\/strong> for this purpose, say local governments, but new and abundant resources<\/strong> are needed to address what is a real social emergency throughout the Twenty-Seven. The priority is to increase\u00a0the supply of housing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Chancelleries are encouraged “to reallocate unclaimed resources<\/strong> from their respective NRRPs toward financial instruments aimed at the “construction of affordable housing units in partnership with local authorities<\/strong>,” reads the opinion adopted by the CoR. Another goal is\u00a0to mobilise private funds<\/strong>\u00a0in cooperation with the\u00a0European Investment Bank (EIB)<\/strong>\u00a0and similar institutions at the national and regional levels<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Collboni presented his report to the special committee<\/a> of the EU Parliament dedicated precisely to Housing (HOUS)<\/strong>, chaired by Dem Irene Tinagli<\/strong>. For the MEP, it is necessary “to look at the short term but also and above all at the medium and long term<\/strong>” and to develop a strategy that brings into play “not only financial resources but also regulatory and legislative resources<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Housing, she explains, is “an\u00a0affordability crisis<\/strong> that is becoming truly worrisome because it no longer impacts only the traditionally most fragile<\/strong> and most in need of aid but more and more the middle class<\/strong> who can no longer live in the cities where they work, where they study.” But municipalities and territories do not have the tools to respond.<\/p>\n

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The chairwoman of the EU Parliament Special Committee on Housing (HOUS), Irene Tinagli (photo: Alain Rolland\/EP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri<\/strong>, a member of the CoR, is also along the same lines. “A real emergency that affects both social cohesion and labour mobility<\/strong>,” he observes, suggesting that additional money obtained (for example) from auction rebates be “given to municipalities that decide to buy social housing on the market<\/strong>, because you can build it, but you can also buy it, perhaps with European co-financing<\/strong>.” At stake, he warns, is the European social model itself.<\/p>\n

Also in agreement is the first citizen of Milan, Beppe Sala<\/strong>, who is pushing for the funds left unused by central governments to be given to municipalities<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>which, he affirms, “have committed 98 per cent of the NRRP funds” precisely to buy social housing on the market<\/strong>. Sala specified that a request to this effect has already been made to the Commission’s executive vice president in charge of Cohesion, Raffaele Fitto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The CoR opinion also talks about “addressing the existing bottlenecks in EU regulations<\/strong> that fuel speculation in the housing markets<\/strong>,” as well as calls for the establishment of a registry for transparency in the housing sector<\/strong>, and\u00a0regulation of rents at the local level. The Berlaymont plans to present a housing plan<\/strong> in early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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