REPORT on the housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing

Tabled by Maria Ohisalo

Added: 13a. Recalls the ongoing climate and environmental emergency; recalls that the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 identifies land take as one of the major threats to biodiversity; stresses that in addressing the housing crisis, priority should be given to the re-purposing, renovation and efficient use of the vast amount of public and private vacant housing stock, to sharing best practice and to creating a favourable legal framework to this end; firmly believes that the construction of any new builds must be in line with the EU goal of ‘no net land take by 2050’, as set out in the EU soil strategy for 2030; underlines the paramount importance of legally binding targets and ambitious and consistent soil health plans to credibly reach this goal; emphasises that, in the light of the massive biodiversity loss that we are already experiencing, new building should in any case not take place in natural areas of concern to the EU that are protected by the Habitats Directive;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE782.973v01-00