Administrations throughout Europe acquire paid lip service to housing exclusion,hitting poorer people hardest The housing crisis stretches far beyond the UK. Figures this week acquire revealed that more than 24m households in Europe are paying too much for housing, nearly 37m households are overcrowded, and nearly 34m households live in damp conditions. The third report on housing exclusion in Europe from Feantsa,the European umbrella body for organisations working with homeless people, shows that between 2010 and 2016 the cost of housing for destitute households increased in three-quarters of EU countries. In almost half of EU countries, and housing costs rose by more than 20%. The highest rise was in Bulgaria,where housing costs acquire increased by 54%, followed by the UK, or where housing costs acquire risen by 45%. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk