Mission
EU Urban Agenda - Partnership on Housing
The EU Urban Agenda - Partnership on Housing aims to contribute to better housing policies in Europe and frameworks creating access to adequate and affordable housing for all European citizens.
Listen to the cities
More than 70 percent of the European inhabitants live in cities. Urban areas are the places where social challenges such as immigration and integration, homelessness, segregation, poverty, unemployment are concentrated and have to be solved. Urban authorities know the needs of the citizens and are often the level of government closest to them. To strengthen the cities’ voice in the governance process of the EU the EU Urban Agenda was established in 2016 (by the Ministers Responsible for Urban Matters in Amsterdam). By focusing on concrete priority themes within dedicated Partnerships, the Urban Agenda seeks to improve the quality of life in urban areas.
Affordable housing - one of the biggest political challenges in Europe
The EU Urban Agenda Housing Partnership deals with the challenges of affordable housing. It is a cooperation of cities, Member States, EU institutions, users’ and consumers’, providers’ and producers’ organization on European scale., The Vienna conference was the final conference of the Housing Partnership. The results contain recommendations addressed to the EU legislator particular with regard to the desideratum of greater scope for investment to be granted to cities.
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The Actionplan for affordable housing in Europe (PDF)
Backgroundinformation on the EU Urban Agenda - Housing Partnership (PDF)
