11 Amendments of Katrin LANGENSIEPEN related to 2019/2187(INI)
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas the access to decent and affordable housing is harder for women, the youth and people in more vulnerable situations such as young unemployed couples, single parents, large families, the elderly, LGBTI persons, migrants, refugees, persons with disabilities, people with physical or psychiatric illnesses, people from marginalised communities including Roma ;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure access for all to decent housing, including clean and high- quality drinking water and, adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene,, hygiene and indoor environmental quality and to affordable, reliable and, sustainable energy, for all hence contributing to eradicatinge poverty in all its forms, supporting the most vulnerable groups, especially young children, the elderly and permanently sick and persons with disabilities, the homeless and Roma so as to protect their health and well- being; reaffirms its call for EU-a wide EU action for a winter heating disconnection moratorium; calls on theencourages Member States to meet the standards laid down by theensure a minimum water supply and to protect the human rights of disadvantaged households; calls on the Member States to meet World Health Organization (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperature; demands that the revision of the air quality regulation to be aligned with WHO standards; calls for the introduction at EU level of minimum mandatory requirements to be introduced for indoor air quality, at the minimum aligned with WHO guidelines;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for an EU- level goal tof ending homelessness by 2030; calls on the Commission to take stronger action to support Member States in reducing and eradicating homelessness as a priority in the context of the action plan on the EPSR; calls on the Commission to propose an EU fFramework for nNational hHomelessness sStrategies; calls on the and Member States to prioritise the provision of permanent housing to homeless people; stresses the importance of reliable data collection on homelessness also by preparing their National Homelessness Strategies listing proactive and reactive measures on the basis of systemic consultation with NGOs working in the field of homelessness, poverty and discrimination; stresses the importance of reliable data collection on homelessness with the involvement of the relevant NGOs and authorities active in service provision for persons at risk or experiencing homelessness; calls on the Commission to develop coherent EU indicators and monitoring;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its call forof 16 January 2014 to put an end to the criminalisation of homeless people and to change the discriminatory practices used to prevent homeless people from accessing social services and shelter; calls on Commission to play its role in swiftly challenging such measures and strongly oppose any hostile measures against the poor and the marginalised;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Emphasises that women’s homelessness is often less visible and needs to be specifically addressed; calls on the Commission and Member States to develop a gendered approach in their homelessness strategies in order to support women experiencing homelessness, who have often suffered from complex trauma and face re- traumatisation, such as domestic violence and abuse, separation from their children, stigmatisation and lack of safe and secure spaces;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to ensure equal access to housing for all, fight against racism and anti-gypsyism and safeguard non-discrimination on all grounds stipulated in Article 21 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the implementation of the Charter as well as of the Racial Equality Directive as well as the EU framework for the implementation of National Roma Integrations Strategies and the UNCRPD; demands that they pay particular attention to intersectional discrimination; calls on the Council to swiftly adopt the horizontal anti-discrimination directive; calls on the Commission to effectively evaluate the political commitment of Member states and launch infringement procedures against Member Statesthose which do not enforce EU anti- discrimination legislation or which criminalise the homeless;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with deep concern that the living conditions of Romani people continue to be extremely worrying; calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in housing projects, with many often living in segregated settlements characterised by substandard living conditions ;Calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma beneficiaries in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation all stages of housing projects, to effectively ensure they are provided with the information to benefit from the existing funds as well as the antidiscrimination policies and mechanisms to prevent forced evictions, and to provide sufficient and appropriate halting sites for non-sedentary Roma; emphasises the urgent need for public investments in this regard also due to the dangers of the COVID-19 epidemic, and urges the Commission and the Member States to utilize the planned Just Transition Fund for improving the housing-, health- and employment-related situation of the Roma;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes with deep concern that persons with disabilities often face several complex challenges and rights deprivation in the field of housing, such as their lack of a right to live in the community with equal opportunities, the lack of availability of community-based services which are necessary to safeguard the transition from institutional care to living in the community, the fact that they are often forced to live in segregated residential institutions, poverty, their lack of access to housing programmes, the existing barriers to accessibility, etc.; calls for a rapid deinstitutionalisation all across Europe and the use of available EU and national funds to create accessible, non-segregated housing and to provide the necessary community-based services for persons with disabilities for the sake of safeguarding their right to live independently in the community and to have equal chances to participate in the society;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that no EU or Member State funds will be used for housing projects leading to segregation or social exclusion;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to impose a general obligation of meeting accessibility criteria in the in the framework of the planned Renovation Wave of public and private buildings foreseen by the European Green Deal communication and to use its potential to tackle accessibility for persons with disabilities and older persons in order to make housing “future proof” in the light of the increasing demographic change;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that EU policies, funding programmes and financing instruments have a great impact on housing markets and citizens’ lives; calls on the Commission to develop an integrated strategy for social, public, non-segregated and affordable housing at EU level creating an enabling framework for national, regional and local authorities to ensure the provision of safe, healthy, accessible and affordable quality housing for all;