Fondation Abbé Pierre and FEANTSA published their 8th annual Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe. This report reveals new estimates of the number of homeless people in Europe and draw a specific focus to the issue of unfit housing.

The spectre of inflation

The war in the Ukraine has both highlighted and added to Europe’s ongoing housing emergency. This crisis is hitting the poorest households hardest, severely affected by soaring prices, as well as homelessness services, which have seen an increase in the number of their clients.

The Abbé Pierre Foundation and FEANTSA published their Seventh Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe on 30th June 2022.

The Abbé Pierre Foundation and FEANTSA published their Sixth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe on 6 May 2021. This latest report focuses on young people, who are worse affected by housing exclusion than other groups, especially when they are poor, which was the case even before the pandemic took hold. The report also takes stock of the wave of poverty that has engulfed Europe more than a year after the pandemic began. Difficult housing conditions have a negative impact on young people's pathway to independence.

Enikő Vincze and Ioana Florea*

Simone Tulumello, Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais

Rita Silva, Habita: Associação pelo Direito à Habitação e à Cidade

Friday 15 November 2019, (9:30 -17:00)

10:00-10:15 Introduction: The private rental sector in Europe - The role of European and International Instruments to defend tenants - The role of the EU: respect of the Art. 34 of the Charter of fundamental rights.