Housing Europe

In 4 years, more than 2.5m homes in Ukraine, 13% of the stock, have been damaged or destroyed, with at least €72bn needed for reconstruction. Will rebuilding it restore the past or lay the foundations for a new housing paradigm? Read 🇺🇦 State of Housing - www.housingeurope.eu/state-of-hou...

Beyond the doorstep. Decarbonising mobility to unlock affordable and climate-resilient housing supply - Housing Europe Private fuel-based vehicles are a major source of emissions, pollution and land take in cities, especially in peripheral areas. Meanwhile, public cooperative, and social housing providers face high co...

Public, cooperative & social housing providers face high costs to build parking spaces that are often under-used as well as rigid parking requirements to prioritise homes over cars. A lot can be done to change this pattern.

Join us on March 5 - tinyurl.com/5662e6eu
@mrossemp.bsky.social

The Parliament has its own plan against the housing crisis. In it we saw progress for public, cooperative, and social housing, but key safeguards are still missing.

Read our view - tinyurl.com/5n8m5z58

Parliament has its own plan against the housing crisis: progress for public, cooperative, and social housing, but key safeguards still missing - Housing Europe The European Parliament’s HOUS Committee has taken an important step in strengthening Europe’s response to the housing crisis. The non-legislative non-binding report supports greater investment in pub...

The Parliament has its own plan against the housing crisis. In it we saw progress for public, cooperative, and social housing, but key safeguards are still missing.

Read our view - tinyurl.com/5n8m5z58

Guiding Europe Home: How to Deliver Affordable Housing Without Fueling Speculation As the EU scales up investment in housing, the real challenge is ensuring affordability lasts. Why supply alone is not enough — and how public money can deliver homes that remain affordable for decade...

With the EU Affordable Housing Plan now on the table, our debate at the European Parliament (2 February) clearly showed that we need to guide Europe home with substance and public purpose to define our common housing response. Read how.

www.housingeurope.eu/guiding-euro...

Today at 15:00 CET, at the European Parliament, public, cooperative and social housing providers from all corners of Europe take the floor to discuss the EU Affordable Housing Plan.

📺 Watch the live stream here.
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"Ter uma casa não é um luxo: é um direito humano", diz comissário europeu “Ter uma casa não é um luxo: é um direito humano.” Foi desta forma que o comissário europeu, Dan Jørgensen, marcou a conferência da passada sexta-feira, que deu a conhecer o esperado Plano Europeu par...

The Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas called on the European Commission and Commissioner Dan Jørgensen to launch a new EU recovery plan dedicated exclusively to housing, warning that cities will be left exposed once the current Resilience and Recovery funding runs out.

www.idealista.pt/news/imobili...

From dorms to dignity. How public and social housing is fixing Europe’s student housing crunch? - Housing Europe For years, student housing has been treated as a niche problem and a seasonal headache best left to private landlords and last-minute sublets. However, as rents soared and mobility stalled, Europe wok...

For years, student housing was treated as a niche, seasonal issue. So much that without affordable housing, higher education has become exclusionary.
EU’s new Affordable Housing Plan put students at the centre & public housing shows what works. More on it at our EP event, 02/02. tinyurl.com/4p64ws32

Dan Jørgensen: Sådan stopper vi den europæiske boligkrise YouTube video by BL - Danmarks Almene Boliger

In a talk between our Danish member, BL & Commissioner Dan Jørgensen, he noted Copenhagen wasn’t always liveable, but decades of dedicated housing policy show what’s possible.

Time to make “affordable” an adjective, not a noun.

Time to show in 2026 that we learn from history.

youtu.be/Asox5jafeKg

2025, the beginning of a new era for housing policy in Europe YouTube video by Housing Europe

Our Housing Europe team closes 2025 with gratitude to all of you who supported more decent and fairer homes throughout the year. 🫶

Watch what our Secretary General, Sorcha Edwards has to tell you.

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New era for housing policy in Europe has begun - Housing Europe Today, the EU’s first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan, the European Commission is taking a historic step in redefining the relationship between housing policies and the European Union. As the Pl...

Housing Europe sees the EU Affordable Housing Plan as a 1st step to build a framework allowing Europe to join forces. Success will depend on local capacity to meet diverse housing needs, and public, cooperative, and social housing should remain central.

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Our Sec-Gen insisted at an event by the @epc-official.bsky.social that Europe must ensure efficiency gains reach households. Private finance has a role, but public interest cannot be sidelined, especially through public-private partnerships that risk favouring private over social outcomes.

As the EU races to decarbonise, social housing emerges as its most reliable investment - Housing Europe The 2025 Eurobarometer reveals that housing is one of the top concerns for Europeans, while companies struggle to find workers, an issue made more acute by high rents. Recent national elections show j...

More and better decarbonised homes are not a contradiction if policy chooses to treat public, cooperative, and social housing as the backbone of a long-term investment strategy. Read about our Decarbonisation Summit last week.

www.housingeurope.eu/as-the-eu-ra...

Join the Decarbonisation Summit — days before the European Affordable Housing Plan🏘️

• neighbourhood renovation
• shared mobility
• prefabrication
• bio-based construction
• fair clean heating

The sector is delivering, just ask and give the tools.
✍️https://buff.ly/L0mp8uK

Hot as the sun or cold as ice — heat pumps can help, when they’re affordable and accessible.
Our Summit session looks at what it takes to make clean heating work for all households.🏡

Can’t join in Brussels? It will be streamed.
✍️https://buff.ly/L0mp8uK

Prefab and industrialised renovation are reshaping how we deliver affordable, climate-ready homes.🏡

Our Summit session looks at the tools and models making this possible.🏗️

👉https://tinyurl.com/4c6rjueu

With the European Affordable Housing Plan approaching, our Decarbonisation Summit brings EU and sector leaders together to look at how we can deliver affordable, climate-neutral neighbourhoods.🏡🏘️🏡

Join us in Brussels👉https://tinyurl.com/4c6rjueu

🚗What if parking took up less space — and people had more?

🏘️Our session looks at how shared mobility can open room for better housing and easier movement.

🪄Sometimes it even makes space appear where you didn’t think any was left.

📆3-4 Dec
📍Brussels
✍️https://tinyurl.com/4c6rjueu

How can wood construction help cut embodied carbon in housing?🏡

Our session at the Decarbonisation Summit brings together voices from the UN, public housing, industry, architecture and the New European Bauhaus to share lessons from the LIFE BE-WoodEN project.🪵

✍️https://tinyurl.com/4c6rjueu

Neighbourhood renovation needs climate ambition, affordability and resident involvement to align.🏡

On 3 Dec, ARV and the Affordable Housing Initiative Partnership discuss practical cases with housing providers, architects, cities and EU policymakers.

🙋https://tinyurl.com/4c6rjueu

Campaigners highlight scale of housing crisis across EU A European Parliament hearing on the housing crisis has heard testimony about the scale of homelessness and the lack of affordable homes across the European Union.

EU support for housing is a drop in the bucket & debt rules still count public housing as national debt, even as countries face tight fiscal limits. EIB’s plan to double lending is key but depends on Member States matching 50%. Will they step up?

www.rte.ie/news/europe/...

Decarbonisation Summit - Housing Europe Reinforcing energy independence and diffusing social tension by reconciling housing affordability and climate goals.

Join us in Brussels for a two-day event, and contribute to the debate 💡

✍️Registration and more information: www.housingeurope.eu/evenement/de...

Housing is at the crossroads of Europe’s biggest challenges — climate, affordability, and community.

But change is taking shape 🏘️

From neighbourhood-scale renovation to shared mobility, prefab methods, wood construction and clean heating, Europe is building a fair path to #decarbonisation.

Were you among the 2,200 participants of the 5th International Social Housing Festival in Dublin? ☘️

As we are rolling our sleeves up for 🇵🇹ISHF 2027 in Lisbon, we would like your thoughts to guide us.

Join the session on November 21 at 14:30 CET.
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As the Dutch Vote, One Issue Carries the Day: Affordable Housing

In the Netherlands, housing is the defining issue of today’s elections.

Our State of Housing report clearly says needs will exceed supply by 1M homes by 2031.

The problem is structural, not about scapegoats.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

When Housing Europe hears financing homes, we ask who decides, who benefits & who gets left behind.

We created a space for this.

On 18–19 Nov 2025 in Prague, the European Responsible Housing Finance Summit will rethink how investment can serve people.

www.housingeurope.eu/evenement/3r...

Lisbon’s public housing company (and our member) Gebalis turned 30! Managing 27,000 homes across the city, it has quietly transformed lives. In a city gripped by a housing crisis, Gebalis offers stability & hope but the call for more investment, staff & new homes is growing louder.

EU finally takes ownership of housing crisis The pressure is now on Brussels to adopt real measures — or risk pushing more voters into the arms of the far right.

The European Council is finally putting housing on its agenda, a historic first. However, recognising the crisis is not the same as fixing it. Subsidiarity should not become an excuse for inaction,
Housing Europe told @politico.eu.

www.politico.eu/article/the-...

Affordable Housing Initiative Days - Prague edition - Affordable Housing Initiative European Partnership Across Europe, the challenge of renovating millions of ageing homes is no longer just about insulation or new windows, we must roll our sleeves up and redo entire neighbourhoods. Policymakers are real...

Policymakers now know: renovation works best at the district level. Shared heating, renewables & common design bring scale & savings.

We say, but please make it affordable. Join us on November 18 in Prague for #AffordableHousingInitiative Days to see how.

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ARTE Europe Weekly - Why is Europe's housing crisis hitting young people the hardest? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English Young people are disproportionately affected by the lack of affordable homes in Europe. Some young people are delaying going to university because they can’t afford accommodation, while others live wi...

Europe’s next generation is running out of room.

As our Sec-Gen told @artefr.bsky.social, too few public mission banks & limited-profit housing providers mean the market was left to fail on its own. Upcoming public finance should create stability, not speculation.

www.arte.tv/en/videos/11...