Parliamentary question - E-005536/2021Parliamentary question
E-005536/2021

Impact of the Greek recovery and resilience plan on access to decent and affordable social housing

Question for written answer  E-005536/2021
to the Commission
Rule 138
Konstantinos Arvanitis (The Left)

In Greece, the severe housing crisis is being compounded by a chronic absence of any housing policy. The situation has been exacerbated by the economic crisis which has led to a 25% contraction in GDP, an increase in poverty and a growing number of people at risk of social exclusion (30% of the total population[1] ), while the Social Housing Agency, the only one of its kind, has been abolished[2]. High levels of energy poverty, the increase in house prices over the last two years[3]

and the accumulation of non-performing loans due to the crisis, have left a high proportion of households spending over 40%[4] of their disposable income on housing.

In view of this:

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