Tell the EU: Homes for people not for profit

Petition

No matter who we are, or where we come from, we all deserve somewhere to call home. Homes create community. Now more than ever, European leaders need to step up and play an active role in holding our communities together. 

For too long, governments have chronically underinvested in public homes and neglected  their responsibilities, meaning our access to safe, affordable homes is in the hands of profit-hungry massive private developers and corporations. 

We’re calling on you to: 

• Accept that we can no longer continue with the system as is, the new Housing Commissioner should recognise this challenge throughout EU policymaking 
• Direct funds to enable the delivery of public, cooperative, social, and community-led housing, this is our pathway as the way out of the housing crisis 
• Support a movement for fair energy transition by leveraging transformative funds that bring together all existing tools, ear-marked annually for socially responsible renovations. This should include low-carbon housing supply targets, a broadened scope beyond renovation for real transformation 
• Do everything in your power to address the issue of home exclusion, this could include supporting the right to housing, including housing exclusion as a core section of impact assessments for EU policies.
• Introduce European legislation that would limit short-term rental platforms’ impact on decent and affordable homes for people 
• Address the imbalance of investment firms accumulating home ownership by ending tax breaks for investor firms
• Create directives to stop evictions and protect homeless people