15 Amendments of Chiara GEMMA related to 2019/2187(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the proportion of the EU population spending more than 40% of their disposable income on housing between 2010 and 2018 stood at 10.2% although substantial differences between EU Member States were recorded;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the rates of homelessness have increased over the last decade in a number of EU Member States due to rising housing costs, the impact of the economic crisis and continued austerity measures which led to deteriorate the effectiveness of public policies delivered to tackle homelessness, including the freezing or cutting of social programmes and benefits;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas housing affordability and housing conditions for low-income owners and renters have deteriorated in recent decades; whereas almost 38% of households at risk of poverty spent more than 40% of their disposable income on housing; whereas people at risk of poverty in the EU increase to 156 million if housing costs are taken into account;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas rental costs in the EU increased over the last decade and between 2007 and 2019 house prices also increased in 22 Member States;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas the role of social housing has declined since the 1980s as pressures on public expenditure have increased and liberalisation and privatisation have become predominant in defining and implementing housing policies;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas the latest evidence collected after the outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic indicate that in the medium term the economic recession and the loss of jobs may further increase the housing cost overburden and homelessness rates in the EU;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. whereas the housing crisis affects more severely urban areas in many Member States where it has become difficult, also for middle-income households, to find affordable housing at market prices;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B h (new)
Recital B h (new)
Bh. whereas the public investment gap in affordable housing in the EU stands at EUR 57 billion per year, mainly consisting in gaps in the development of social housing stock and social welfare type payments;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to prioritise the use of renewable energy sources and emissions reductions through housing renovation in the social housing sector and for worst performing buildings in the Renovation Wave, while tackling inadequate housing and housing accessibility and eliminating energy poverty in order to ensure a socially just transition to a climate-neutral economy that leaves no one behind; stresses, therefore, that tenants and owner-occupiers should be fully informed and involved in renovation projects and should not see overall costs increase because of them;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for a comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy with a designated poverty reduction target, including for child poverty; underlines the urgent need to adopt a European Child Guarantee to ensure that each child in the EU can have access to, inter alia, decent housing; calls for a European framework for minimum income schemes;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that housing financial benefits must be increased and complemented by statutory minimum wages to be set above the relative poverty threshold with a view to, inter alia, improving access to decent housing for all in the EU; underlines in this regard the paramount importance of adopting an EU directive on minimum wages;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that EU policies, funding programmes and financing instruments have a great impact on housing markets and citizens’ lives; calls on the Commission to develop an integrated strategy for social, public and affordable housing at EU level to ensure the provision of safe, accessible and affordable quality housing for all as well as improving its action to engage all levels of government in fully and consistently implementing the right to a decent housing for all;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the inclusion of housing affordability in the European Semester; urges the Commission to ensure that all country-specific recommendations contribute positively to the full and consistent implementation of the principles of the EPSR; stresses the need to refine the House Price Index indicator and to set the reference threshold for the housing cost overburden rate at no higher than 25 % of the disposable income of a household;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to close the investment gap for affordable housing as a matter of priority; calls in this regard for a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact allowing for increased fiscal space for sustainable public investments, in particular in affordableMember States to make the needed green and social public investments, including those related to the development and improvement of social, public, affordable and energy efficient housing; calls, furthermore, for a harmonised accounting for amortisation methodology for affordable housing investments;
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses that precarious work and in-work poverty undermine access to bank credit and highly increase the levels of housing cost overburden; calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt all necessary legislative measures to fight against precarious employment and in- work poverty;