Activities of Jana TOOM related to 2019/2187(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Decent and affordable housing for all (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on access to decent and affordable housing for all
Amendments (15)
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal access for all to decent housing regardless of geographic location, including clean and high- quality drinking water and adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene, and to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy, hence contributing to eradicating poverty in all its forms; reaffirms its call for EU- wide action for a winter heating disconnection moratorium; condemns the circumvention of the moratorium by not connecting the heating in the autumn period, and therefore rendering the moratorium ineffective; calls on the Member States to meet the standards laid down by the World Health Organization (WHO) for adequate housing temperaturehousing and health1a; demands that the revision of the air quality regulation be aligned with WHO standards; __________________ 1a World Health Organization. (2018). WHO housing and health guidelines.
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to prioritise emissions reductions through housing renovation in the social housing sector and for worst performing buildings in the Renovation Wave, while tackling inadequate housing and housing accessibility and eliminating energy poverty in order to ensure a socially just transition to a climate-neutral economy that leaves no one behind; stresses, therefore, that tenants and owner-occupiers should be fully informed and involved in renovation projects and should not see overall costs increase because of them; stresses that membership of the home-owners association and its board should not be subject to discriminatory conditions, such as nationality or language requirements;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to prioritise emissions reductions through housing renovation in the social housing sector and for worst performing buildings in the Renovation Wave, while tackling inadequate housing and housing accessibility and eliminating energy poverty in order to ensure a socially just transition to a climate-neutral economy that leaves no one behind; stresses, therefore, that tenants and owner-occupiers should be fully informed and involved in renovation projects and should not see overall costs increase because of them; calls on the Member States to make membership of home-owners associations mandatory, as this is of importance in application for EU renovation funding;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to prioritise emissions reductions and energy efficiency through housing renovation, including the social housing sector and particularly for worst performing buildings in the Renovation Wave, while tackling inadequate housing and housing accessibility and eliminating energy poverty in order to ensure a socially just transition to a climate-neutral economy that leaves no one behind; stresses, therefore, that tenants and owner-occupiers should be fully informed and involved in renovation projects and should not see overall costs increase because of them;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to prioritise the Renovation Wave within the Multiannual Financial Framework and Next Generation EU, placing people in vulnerable situations at the centre of the recovery policies, and to ensure equal access to renovation projects for all; calls on the Member States to prioritise renovation in their recovery and resilience plans in order to contribute to achieving deep renovation of 3 % of the European building stock per year;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to create a clear definition of homelessness, decent and affordable housing, in order to facilitate comparative analysis of homelessness and housing data across the EU;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for a comprehensive and integrated anti-poverty strategy with a designated poverty reduction target, including for child poverty; calls on the Commission to present an EU Child Guarantee no later than 2021; calls for a European framework for minimum income schemes;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take measures and implement programmes for the youth who reach the age of 18 and finds themselves at risk of being homeless; stresses the importance of reliable data collection on youth homelessness;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with deep concern that the living conditions of Roma, as well as other national and linguistic minorities, continue to be extremely worrying; calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma, as well as other national and linguistic minority beneficiaries in housing projects, to prevent forced evictions, and to provide halting sites for non-sedentary Roma; emphasises the urgent need for public investment in this regard;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to include safeguards into accession negotiations with new Member States in order to prevent acute, mass homelessness, for example from property restoration and denationalization as has happened after the fall of the Soviet Union in Estonia and Latvia, which resulted in the detrimental situation where tens of thousands of people became homeless;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the inclusion of housing affordability in the European Semester; urges the Commission to ensure that all country-specific recommendations are fully implemented and contribute positively to the implementation of the principles of the EPSR; stresses the need to refine the House Price Index indicator and to setassess the reference threshold for the housing cost overburden rate at no higher than 25 % of the disposable income of a householdcross the EU;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to create a platform for exchange of best practices regarding tackling homelessness and providing decent and affordable housing;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes with concern the increased financialisation of the housing market, in particular in cities, whereby investors treat housing as a tradable asset rather than a human right; calls on the Commission to assess the contribution of EU policies and regulations to financialisation of the housing market and the ability of national and local authorities to ensure the right to housing and, where appropriate, to put forward legislative proposals to counter excessive financialisation of the housing market by mid-2021; calls on the Member States and local authorities to put in place taxation measures to counter speculative investment, and to develop urban and rural planning policies that favour affordable housing, social mix and social cohesion;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further increase investment in the EU in affordable and energy-efficient social and public housing and in tackling homelessness and housing exclusion, through the European Regional Development Fund, the Just Transition Fund, InvestEU, ESF+, Horizon Europe and Next Generation EU, and to ensure greater synergies between those instruments;