Parliament drafts European Charter on Housing 05-05-2006 The European Parliament's URBAN-Housing Intergroup adopted a European Charter
on Housing on April 26. Housing is not a European Union responsibility in the
strict sense, but policies developed and supported by the European Union do have
an impact. The Charter calls for Structural Fund eligibility for the renovation
of social housing. The document will now be discussed by the European
Parliament's Regional Policy Committee.
The Charter recalls the importance of implementing fundamental social rights
such as the right to worthy, decent and affordable housing. It calls on the
European Union and its member states to support the creation and the renewal of
social housing or transit housing destined for people earning the lowest incomes
and take measures to make more attainable the renting of average housing for
people with average incomes, and make it easier for people with average or low
incomes to get mortgages.
The text goes on to say that access to housing represents a crucial step in
combating poverty, particularly in cities, and in pursuing the objective of
social inclusion of vulnerable individuals deprived of decent housing. The
Charter argues against the creation of ghettos and in favour of a rebalancing of
districts (and) a broad social mix.
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