Affordable Housing: What can cohesion policy, the Urban Agenda and civil society do to ensure housing is affordable for everyone? - Related links

European Commission

• Panorama: Analysis and Data: Inforegio - How cohesion policy helps solve Europe’s housing crisis (12 March 2025)
• Press Release: President von der Leyen establishes 14 Project Groups (9 January 2025)
• Decision on the establishment of a Commissioners’ Project Group on Affordable Housing (7 January 2025)
• Forging a sustainable future together: Cohesion for a competitive and inclusive Europe. Report of the High-Level Group on the Future of Cohesion Policy (European Commission, February 2024)
• 9th report on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion (European Commission, press release, March 2024)
• Bridging Gaps: EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 - Creating a better life for Europeans (European Commission, 27 May 2024)
• EC General Publication: Social housing and beyond - Operational toolkit on the use of EU funds for investments in social housing and associated services (18 April 2024)
• Report on the implementation of the Communication: Putting people first, securing sustainable and inclusive growth, unlocking the potential of the EU’s outermost regions (European Commission, 3 October 2024)
• Study to develop EU level Simplified Cost Options (SCOs) and other EU level results-based tools in the programming period 2021-2027 (European Commission, July 2023)
• Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services and amending Regulation  (7 November 2022)
• General Publication: Urban Agenda for the EU - European Commission (17 December 2021)

European Parliament

• EP Committee on Regional Development: Draft Report on the role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisis (2024/2120)
• Briefing EP Think Tank: The future of cohesion policy: Current state of the debate | Think Tank | European Parliament (January 2025)
• EP Briefing: A coordinated EU approach to housing (January 2025)
• Streamlining EU Cohesion Funds: Addressing Administrative Burdens and Redundancy(European Parliament, November 2024)
• EP Think Tank Briefing: Strengthening the Urban Agenda for the EU (29 January 2021)
• Press Release: Europeans concerned  by cost of living crisis and expect additional EU measures (12 January 2023)
• EESC
• Study: Affordable Sustainable Housing in the EU (2024)
• EESC Information Center: Housing Policy to reduce the cost-of-living crisis in the EU
• Conclusions of the EESC Conference on Housing crisis in Europe – the way forward? (28 February 2024)

Eurofund

• Living conditions and quality of life - Unaffordable and inadequate housing in Europe (30 May 2023)
• Housing cracks: Multi-pronged policy approach required (2 May 2024)

EIB

• EIB Group activities in EU cohesion regions 2023 (European Investment Bank, 2024)
• Cohesion and regional development: Overview 2023 (European Investment Bank, 2023)
• CoR opinion
• The role of cities and regions in the EU Affordable Housing Plan | European Committee of the Regions (May 2025)
• Smart, sustainable and affordable housing as a tool for local authorities to face multiple challenges | European Committee of the Regions (16 April 2024)
• CoR Background note on cohesion policy - Publications Office of the EU (2024)

OECD

• OECD Policy Brief: An Agenda for Housing Policy Reform | OECD (7 October 2024)
• OECD Regional Development Papers: Confronting the cost-of-living and housing crisis in cities | OECD (12 June 2023)

Think tanks and other organisations

• Bruegel: What about the EU’s cohesion? (April 2024)
• EU cohesion policy post-2027: why and how to enhance flexibility (Eulalia Rubio, Cinzia Alcidi and Fredrik Andersson, September 2024)
• Forging a sustainable future together: The report of the High-Level Group on the Future of Cohesion Policy (Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, VoxEU column, March 2024)
• Politico: The EU’s plan to make housing more affordable – POLITICO (October 2024)
• EPCO Article: How the EU should tackle the housing crisis (November 2024)
• Informal Ministerial Meeting on Housing and Urban Matters Gijon: Agreements on the Urban Matter Session about the Urban Agenda for the EU (November 2023)
• EPCO Discussion Paper: Addressing Cohesion Policy’s identity crisis in a changing European Union (February 2023)
• Concrete actions for social and affordable housing in the EU - Foundation for European Progressive Studies (January 2021)
• Housing Europe: A Mid-Term Analysis of the Impact of Structural Funds on Public, Cooperative and Social Housing in 2014-2020 (2018)