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.
Get the overview of what to expect and how to participate here.
- 22 April - 21 May 2025Closed for applications: Housing Advisory Board
The Commission launched a call for applications that closed 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. The selection process is ongoing.
- 12 May - 4 June 2025Closed for feedback: Call for evidence
313 stakeholders and citizens have contributed to the call for evidence that closed 4 June 2025. It will help outline the Commission’s intended approach to the European Affordable housing Plan.
- Summer 2025Public consultation
During the summer, the Commission will launch a public consultation, aiming at collecting views from general public and experts on possible policy solutions.
- Spring 2026The Affordable Housing Plan
Based on the input from the dialogue, the Commission expects to present the Affordable Housing Plan in 2026.
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.
