To prepare the first ever European Affordable Housing Plan, the Commission is carrying out an Affordable Housing Dialogue throughout 2025. The scope is to collect knowledge and data from stakeholders across member states.
In progress
- The Commission has launched a call for applications open until 21 May to establish the Housing Advisory Board, which will consist of up to 15 members appointed in a personal capacity to provide independent policy recommendations.
- Stakeholders are invited to contribute to the call for evidence by 4 June 2025 that outlines the Commission’s intended approach to the European Affordable housing Plan and seeks feedback.
Upcoming
- Public consultation aiming at collecting views from general public and experts on possible policy solutions.
The consultation will be complemented with thematic expert workshops including several topics.
- Permitting and regulation
- Short-term accommodation rentals
- Investments in the housing market
- Pan-European Investment Platform
- Social housing
- Skills
- Homelessness (in the context of the Homelessness Platform)
By investing in housing, we are investing in everything that comes with a home: in the sense of security, warmth, and stability; in the ability of teachers, nurses and police officers to live among the children they nurture, the people they care for, and the neighbourhoods that they protect. Above all, when we invest in housing, we invest in people: in friends, families, and neighbours, who turn towns and cities into communities, and who turn houses into homes.
Cooperation with other EU institutions and bodies
As part of the Affordable Housing Dialogue, the Commission is working in close association with other European institutions and bodies notably the European Parliament, which has established a Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union. EU Member States and public authorities at regional and local level also play a pivotal role in our concerted efforts to address the housing crisis.
