Housing Affordability & Social Inclusion

Housing affordability has shifted from a problem affecting low-income households to one increasingly affecting the middle class across European cities. Rent-burden indicators, cost overburden statistics, and tenure structure data show widening exclusion of key workers, young people, families, single parents, migrants and the elderly from stable, decent housing. Resources here include Eurostat indicators, Eurofund affordability studies, FEANTSA reports on homelessness and locked-out populations, and academic work on the social-justice dimensions of the housing crisis.