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Panel 1 frames how construction materials and methods affect housing affordability, with industry and academic experts detailing energy and raw material policies, CPR/EPBD implementation, digitalisation, modular and off-site construction, and incentives for circular and biobased materials.
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Chairs Tinagli and Grapini open the joint ECON–IMCO hearing, adopt the agenda, and the Commission’s Housing Task Force outlines the EU strategy on housing and construction, including simplification, circularity, skills and modern methods of construction.
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High Level Event on the Housing Crisis in the EU
MEPs and stakeholders set out desired conditionalities on EU finance, legal tools to reactivate abandoned buildings, and long-term affordability safeguards, before the Commission and Chair close with messages on the next MFF, member state responsibilities and tackling financialisation and speculation in housing.
High Level Event on the Housing Crisis in the EU
Youth representatives, FEANTSA and student cooperatives present the situation of young people and homeless youth, followed by a debate on models and Erasmus-related needs, after which Commissioner Jørgensen outlines the Affordable Housing Plan and Act, funding and simplification measures, and a Q&A focuses on rent regulation, discrimination and non-student precarity.
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High Level Event on the Housing Crisis in the EU
Construction stakeholders, cities, cooperatives and MEPs discuss systemic housing systems, cost-reduction standards, off-site and renovation approaches, EPBD and Bauhaus links, and debate EU-level ‘housing stress’ criteria, circularity rules and the need to reinforce local administrative capacity for implementation.
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High Level Event on the Housing Crisis in the EU
Local authorities, housing providers, public banks and MEPs examine funding gaps, MFF earmarking, InvestEU and guarantees, design of the Pan-European Housing Investment Platform, prudential and fiscal rules, affordability definitions, state aid, and safeguards against speculation and misuse of EU-funded housing.
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High Level Event on the Housing Crisis in the EU
Chair Tinagli, the Commission and Parliament leadership set the institutional context for the high-level meeting, outlining the new EU Housing Task Force, Parliament’s mandate, and the Commission’s three strategic strands for EU action on housing.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
Chair Tinagli first closes the hearing on housing, affordability and climate resilience, then later reopens the ECON committee meeting to adopt the agenda, outline written procedures and introduce an exchange of views with MEP Le Callennec on the PETI network’s work.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
MEPs probe the EU’s role in prevention versus protection at any cost, managed retreat and compensation methods; speakers call for stronger EU planning bans in floodplains, affordable coastal housing investment, European solidarity for front‑line territories, and harmonised multi‑risk mapping and education efforts.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
Spanish, Italian and French local representatives describe coastal demographics, Spain’s Coastal Law zoning regime, urban flood risk and nature‑based solutions in Genoa, and the South Bigouden case where tourism, housing prices and extensive prevention plans intersect with managed retreat and buyouts.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
MEPs question how EU directives and funding should support prevention, mapping and protection, including for islands, while experts detail French and Greek planning tools, financing strategies, and explain why construction has continued in known risk areas before Panel 1 is closed and Panel 2 introduced.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
The chair frames the hearing on coastal flooding, erosion and housing, then French and Greek experts quantify exposure, present 2050 and 2100 risk scenarios, and highlight engineering responses and EU‑level needs in data, institutions, funding and ESG valuation tools.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
The Vice-President announces an upcoming affordable housing financial instrument with the EIB, outlines eligible project types and territorial strategies, and commits to stricter monitoring of reprogrammed funds, while the Chair presses for enforceable long‑term affordability conditions and the Vice-President pledges DG‑level checks and corrective action before formally closing the meeting.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
In short interventions, MEPs raise the use of PPPs, territorial needs, risks of misuse and cronyism, enforcement of the partnership principle, and demand binding conditions to keep EU‑funded housing affordable and prevent speculative investment models and tax‑privileged funds from capturing benefits.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
Renew, Greens and The Left highlight inflation, labour shortages, weak partnership, risks of financialisation and housing indignities, prompting the Vice-President to underline inflation considerations, limits of EU competence, the scope of the €3.3 billion housing reallocation and remaining flexibility, followed by the Chair’s clarification on the recent midterm review and the committee’s ongoing monitoring role.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
EPP, S&D, Patriots and ECR coordinators question how to mobilise private capital while protecting social and affordable housing, seek assurances against speculation, and ask how affordable housing will be reflected in the post‑2027 MFF and new funds, with the Vice-President detailing work with the EIB, reprogramming choices, cohesion principles and the forthcoming ‘right to stay’ and territorial strategies.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the special committee meeting, adopts the agenda and frames the exchange around what the cohesion policy midterm review delivers for housing, as the Executive Vice-President sets out the EU-wide housing emergency, the Affordable Housing Plan, cohesion allocations and the rationale and figures of the midterm review reprogramming towards housing.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
The Chair closes the exchange with Mr Baldwin, underlines the political priority of tackling rising living and housing costs, highlights the ongoing public consultation on energy efficiency, and announces a forthcoming public hearing with Commissioner Jørgensen for which this debate will serve as input before formally closing the meeting.
Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
MEPs question the Commission on windfall profits, funding for social and non‑profit housing, fiscal and state‑aid flexibility, fossil‑fuel dependence, social protections, construction prices, and short‑term rentals, prompting replies on the planned mapping of EU housing‑relevant rules, the forthcoming Affordable Housing Act, targeted relief, windfall taxation, energy communities, renovation trade‑offs and use of vacant stock.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the item on the recent energy price spike and housing affordability, and the Commission (Baldwin) details the shock’s origin, implications for EU energy security, existing policy toolbox, and the links between energy prices, construction and renovation costs, and long‑term consumer empowerment via affordable energy and energy communities.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
UN‑Habitat presents the global housing crisis, housing as a human right, and diverse policy models, followed by MEP reactions and detailed Q&A on finance, speculation, urbanisation, demographics, short‑term rentals and sustainable urban planning, with the Commission (DG INTPA) explaining how these priorities are integrated into EU external action and the Global Gateway strategy.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the meeting, confirms procedural aspects, adopts the agenda and minutes, and outlines coordinators’ decisions on upcoming hearings, missions and analytical work that frame the committee’s mandate and future timetable.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
Members question the EIB on social and environmental conditionality, the balance between social and affordable housing, support for homelessness infrastructure, transparency and eligibility for Housing TechEU, and housing in the next MFF, with the EIB clarifying ESG safeguards, eligibility of shelters, innovation support and a positive MFF outlook before the Chair closes the exchange and announces next steps.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
Renew Europe raises EIB‑backed Irish and Flemish examples, calls for high‑volume integrated student housing schemes and asks about InvestEU timing, while the Greens press for moving Croatian cohesion funding from capacity‑building to construction and for safeguards against housing financialisation; the EIB replies on the need for proactive project promoters and on structuring private capital with long‑term, lower‑return models to keep rents affordable.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
EPP and S&D question the EIB on the design and InvestEU link of the planned pan‑European investment platform, support for renovating low‑efficiency buildings, and ways to streamline EIB and intermediary governance to accelerate housing approvals, with the Vice‑President detailing platform architecture, renovation tools and measures to cut time to market while preserving impact controls.
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Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the meeting, adopts the agenda and introduces the exchange with the EIB Vice‑President, who outlines the scale of the housing crisis, recent EIB housing results, key lessons learnt and future objectives including modernising construction and leveraging EU funds.
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