
Housing crisis: Europe cannot afford it
Housing may not be an EU competence but the growing affordability crisis across the union demands attention.
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Gerald Koessl is a researcher at the Austrian Federation of Limited-Profit Housing Associations, a member of Housing Europe. He worked at the National Housing Federation in London and has a PhD from Goldsmiths College there.

Housing may not be an EU competence but the growing affordability crisis across the union demands attention.

Providing affordable housing is not only doing the right thing. There is an economic spinoff for everyone.