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Report (2025/2070(INI)) 2026-03-04

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/31

Amendment 31

Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

(2025/2070(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24a. Urges the relevant Member States to ensure full and timely redress for all homeowners, community groups and small businesses affected by defective concrete products, by introducing a compensation scheme that covers 100 % of the real costs of remediation or rebuilding, including the cost of temporary relocation for residents and storage of furniture and belongings; emphasises that this redress must include all impacted jurisdictions, ensuring cross-border consistency;

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/32

Amendment 32

Leila Chaibi, Irene Montero, Ilaria Salis, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, Giorgos Georgiou, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

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Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Stresses that housing policy must strike a fair balance between protecting owners’ rights and safeguarding tenants; recalls that EU citizens have the right to own, use, dispose of and inherit lawfully acquired possessions; strongly condemns the phenomenon of illegal occupation of private and public properties across Europe, known as squatting, which infringes on the fundamental right to private property; calls on the Member States to protect this fundamental right and adopt stricter measures to safeguard owners, ensuring swift and effective legal mechanisms for the recovery of property, including timely court orders for evictions, strengthening protection for victims of such acts, restoring lawful possessions and upholding the rule of law; underlines that the illegal occupation of housing units can generate insecurity, urban decay and social tension and undermine social cohesion; considers that owners being lawfully able to regain control of their dwellings is not only a matter of fairness and justice, but is also vital for maintaining investor confidence and rental supply; calls for coordinated policies at EU level to address and curb housing occupation, guaranteeing the right to property and the legal certainty of owners as important elements for ensuring, economic stability and security, in particular protecting small owners who depend on rental income as a means of earning a living, such as pensioners; calls for better cooperation, data collection and information-sharing between the Member States in this regard; and calls for better use of Europol tools where organised crime is suspected to be involved in squatting, including by exploring the added value and possible establishment of an online platform;

28. Underlines the need to combat the criminalisation of occupation of vacant housing, especially public properties and properties owned by landlords with multiple residential assets, where such occupation is carried out by individuals unable to afford housing at prevailing market rates; calls on the Member States to encourage the rehabilitation of abandoned or deliberately neglected buildings and stresses the need to coordinate the transformation of degraded and vacant buildings in high-demand areas into diversified public housing, including social housing, solidarity-based leases, and intermediate housing, and ensuring quality and multi-service facilities;

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/33

Amendment 33

Leila Chaibi, Irene Montero, Ilaria Salis, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, João Oliveira, Lynn Boylan, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

(2025/2070(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Encourages property owners to offer long-term and stable rental contracts, in order to enhance security of tenure and provide greater predictability for tenants; encourages the Member States to increase transparency in the private rental sector, based on the advertised prices, with the aim of improving housing conditions for tenants, and to strengthen national legislation in this regard; calls on the Member States to strengthen the protection of tenants’ rights, including by encouraging online rental platforms to provide information on average rent levels in the area, in order to ensure fair conditions and prevent disproportionate rent increases; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen their commitment to ensuring equality and non-discrimination in the housing sector; calls for coordinated responses from social services to resolve tenant-owner conflicts and prevent further vulnerability of the parties involved, including small owners and vulnerable tenants in these circumstances; encourages the Member States to offer legal dispute settlement mechanisms for resolving housing-related disputes, for example, in cases of prolonged or abusive non-compliance with rental contracts that deprive owners of the legitimate use of their homes, as well as landlords who fail to comply with tenants obligations; calls on public authorities to protect families, in particular those with children, for example, by facilitating access to temporary shelter to address short-term vulnerability, with the protection of vulnerable families resting with competent authorities; underlines that local authorities need to identify and address cases of non-compliance with property, management and safety requirements, contributing to higher standards in the private rental market; condemns abusive housing practices that subject tenants in vulnerable situations to inadequate, unsafe or unsanitary conditions; supports the role of tenants’ unions and housing civil society actors as stakeholders in housing policy;

29. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase tenant protections by enabling the introduction of long-term and stable rental contracts, in order to enhance security of tenure and provide greater predictability for tenants; encourages the Member States to increase transparency in the private rental sector, based on the advertised prices, with the aim of improving housing conditions for tenants, and to strengthen national legislation in this regard; calls on the Member States to strengthen the protection of tenants’ rights, including by encouraging online rental platforms to provide information on average rent levels in the area, in order to ensure fair conditions and prevent disproportionate rent increases; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen their commitment to ensuring equality and non-discrimination in the housing sector; calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to implement stricter tenant protection measures to eliminate abusive relationships with landlords and enable tenants to exercise their rights; stresses that such measures should, in particular, aim to strengthen tenants’ collective rights by consolidating their role within homeowners’ associations and recognising their participation in the development of local housing policies; calls for coordinated responses from social services to resolve tenant-owner conflicts and prevent further vulnerability of the parties involved, including small owners and vulnerable tenants in these circumstances; encourages the Member States to offer legal dispute settlement mechanisms for resolving housing-related disputes, for example where landlords fail to comply with tenants obligations; calls on public authorities to protect families, in particular those with children, for example, by facilitating access to temporary shelter to address short-term vulnerability, with the protection of vulnerable families resting with competent authorities; underlines that local authorities need to identify and address cases of non-compliance with property, management and safety requirements, contributing to higher standards in the private rental market; condemns abusive housing practices that subject tenants in vulnerable situations to inadequate, unsafe or unsanitary conditions; supports the role of tenants’ unions and housing civil society actors as stakeholders in housing policy;

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/34

Amendment 34

Leila Chaibi, Irene Montero, Ilaria Salis, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, João Oliveira, Hanna Gedin, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

(2025/2070(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29a. Calls on the Member States to implement protective measures for individuals unable to pay their rent, including prohibiting evictions for non-payment of rent when no decent alternative can be provided; calls for special protective measures to ensure that children are not evicted and for the establishment of a European winter eviction moratorium;

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/35

Amendment 35

Leila Chaibi, Irene Montero, Ilaria Salis, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, Gaetano Pedulla’, Giorgos Georgiou, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

(2025/2070(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29b. Calls for the creation of a universal rent guarantee to protect tenants against financial shocks, prevent evictions, and ensure housing stability; calls for this guarantee to be supported by appropriate public funding;

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/36

Amendment 36

Leila Chaibi, Irene Montero, Ilaria Salis, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, Gaetano Pedulla’, Giorgos Georgiou, João Oliveira, Elena Kountoura, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

(2025/2070(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29c. Calls on the Member States to ensure that tenants and consumers of mortgage services are not bound by unfair contract terms and have access to effective judicial remedies, in accordance with Directive 93/13/EEC1a; calls, in particular, on the Member States to ensure that national courts may examine the possible unfairness of relevant contractual terms on their own initiative and that effective interim measures are available, where necessary, to stay or suspend enforcement and eviction proceedings pending such judicial assessment;

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1a Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (OJ L 95, 21.4.1993, p. 29, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/1993/13/oj).

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/37

Amendment 37

Leila Chaibi, Irene Montero, Ilaria Salis, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, Giorgos Georgiou, João Oliveira, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

(2025/2070(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29d. Calls on the Member States to adopt all necessary legislative measures to ensure that, in the event of foreclosures and auctions of primary residences, the outstanding debt linked exclusively to such properties is written off;

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/38

Amendment 38

Leila Chaibi, Irene Montero, Ilaria Salis, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, Giorgos Georgiou, Lynn Boylan, Elena Kountoura, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

(2025/2070(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29e. Calls for legal and social protection measures to be put in place to ensure the full protection of primary residences, including a general moratorium on mortgage enforcement, forced evictions and auctions, as well as accessible support mechanisms, in order to protect citizens from unjust or avoidable repossession of their primary residences when homeowners are unable to repay their mortgages due to proven financial hardship; strongly condemns the sale of mortgage loans to funds and the subsequent unfair commercial practices, including abusive conduct towards borrowers, which frequently results in aggressive debt recovery practices and loss of protections for borrowers and guarantors, and calls for a legal prohibition of such transfers;

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4.3.2026 A10-0025/39

Amendment 39

Leila Chaibi, Irene Montero, Ilaria Salis, Martin Schirdewan, Estrella Galán, Gaetano Pedulla’, Giorgos Georgiou, João Oliveira, Lynn Boylan, Catarina Martins

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0025/2026

Borja Giménez Larraz

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

(2025/2070(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35. Recalls the crucial role of public procurement in the construction sector, which represents a substantial share of the sector’s activity; points out that the complexity of public procurement has increased over time making it more difficult for municipalities to contract public construction; calls on the Commission to materially simplify EU procurement legislation; calls on public authorities to effectively regulate subcontracting, ensuring that public funds support companies that provide high-quality social working conditions and respect industry standards; calls on the Commission to reflect on the inclusion of social and environmental standards in the upcoming revision of the Public Procurement Directive52 and to ensure transparency regarding subcontractors and the extent of subcontracted work; notes that the introduction of additional criteria in public procurement procedures could increase the complexity of the procurement process, affecting competition among bidders and prices; stresses that careful design of such criteria is important to ensure alignment with the objective of facilitating the building of more affordable housing; believes that the European Strategy for Housing Construction should ensure that public contracts are not awarded to companies convicted of corruption or human rights violations; calls on the Member States to adapt their procurement rules to help the public sector avoid engaging with contractors that do not have the proven ability or expertise required;

35. Recalls the crucial role of public procurement in the construction sector, which represents a substantial share of the sector’s activity; points out that public procurement is a key lever to deliver high-quality, affordable housing, uphold social and environmental obligations, and prevent fraud, conflicts of interest and corruption through transparency and effective oversight; stresses that subcontracting chains are particularly widespread in the construction sector, weakening environmental and worker protection; calls on public authorities to effectively regulate subcontracting, ensuring that public funds support companies that provide high-quality social working conditions and respect industry standards; calls on the Commission to reflect on the inclusion of social and environmental standards in the upcoming revision of the Public Procurement Directive52 and to ensure transparency regarding subcontractors and the extent of subcontracted work; stresses that careful design of such criteria is important to ensure alignment with the objective of facilitating the building of more affordable housing; believes that the European Strategy for Housing Construction should ensure that public contracts are not awarded to companies convicted of corruption or human rights violations; calls on the Member States to adapt their procurement rules to help the public sector avoid engaging with contractors that do not have the proven ability or expertise required;

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52 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj).

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