BRITISH Tories in the European Parliament have rejected a report calling for an action plan to promote house building and tackle homelessness.<\/p>\n
The Green-proposed package was adopted anyway. It calls for an EU-wide social housing strategy and to tackle putting a roof over the head of some of Europe’s most vulnerable residents: the six per cent of EU residents who are classed as homeless.<\/p>\n
London Green MEP Jean Lambert said she was shocked that the Tories had rejected the proposal.<\/p>\n
“London has some of highest rates of homelessness in the whole EU – and with housing costs relative to wages rising fast the notion of having a long-term home is a an unattainable dream now for millions of Londoners,” she said.<\/p>\n
“In this context, I can’t really believe that the UK Tories voted against even considering a strategy that could help.”<\/p>\n
MEPs have today voted to find ways to prevent eviction of households unable to meet mortgage payments – and to adapt tax policies to favour the building of new social housing and to thus restrain housing speculation and provide much-needed jobs which can’t be off-shored.<\/p>\n
Ms Lambert added: “Parliament has today underlined the urgent need for EU action to address the severe, long-term housing crisis, sending a clear political signal on the need to tackle this issue.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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