{"id":874,"date":"2026-03-30T10:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/874\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:47:06","slug":"eu-tackles-europes-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/874\/","title":{"rendered":"EU tackles Europe&#8217;s housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/housing\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">housing<\/a> policy is a competence of member states, what is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/european-union\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EU<\/a> actually doing\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and what can it realistically do\u00a0\u2013 on this front?<\/p>\n<p>Our reporters travelled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barcelona<\/a>, one of the symbols of the housing crisis, to meet residents, many of whom are struggling to find adequate housing. They also visited local renovation and construction initiatives, partly funded by European money.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Banni\u00e8re-DG-ECFIN-EN.jpg\"   alt=\"Talking Europe\" style=\"max-height:82px\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"a-img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Talking Europe                \u00a9 France 24            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But since housing policy is a competence of member states, what is the EU actually doing\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and what can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1053,39,4,40,1051,633,1054,108,1052,584],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-airbnb","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-housing","tag-inflation","tag-real-estate","tag-spain","tag-talking-europe-economy","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}