TAG: Affordable housing
Von der Leyen bets big on housing
This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Sign up here.From Lisbon to Tallinn, Europeans have taken to the streets to protest against sky-high housing costs. Eur...
2 months ago
What’s the point of a housing commissioner?
One of the new commissioners in Brussels will tackle a topic that voters care deeply about — but where the European Union has hardly any power: housing.“How can you be in charge of something that doesn't happen within the EU's competence, for which it has...
1 month ago
The EU’s plan to make housing more affordable
BRUSSELS — The European Commission wants to make housing more affordable by squeezing more cash out of European Union funding programs and revising rules, according to a draft policy document seen by POLITICO.Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has...
1 week ago