Affordable Housing Act: Is Brussels over-Promising and Under-Delivering?
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BRUSSELS. More Europeans will have a roof over their heads at a lower cost. New EU rules will prevent tourists from grabbing more homes. “A home is a human right, not a commodity on a market,” says Housing Commissioner Dan Jørgensen.
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Affordable Housing Act: Is Brussels over-promising and under-delivering?
The European Commission calls it the Affordable Housing Act and says it can “truly bring a change in people’s lives”. But how much will it actually do to make housing more affordable, asks Catherine Feore? The tension at the heart of the proposal is that Brussels is making ambitious claims about tackling the housing crisis while simultaneously making clear that it is not imposing new housing policies on governments or cities. Commission Preside…
PP MEP Borja Giménez Larraz considered Wednesday a "disappointment" of the Affordable Housing Act presented by the European Commission with the aim of providing greater legal certainty to local authorities to restrict the rental of tourism and the sale of second homes in stressed areas, considering that what is necessary [...] La entrada Giménez Larraz (PPE), disappointed with the Affordable Housing Act of Brussels, advocates to increase the off…
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