19 Amendments of Nicolaus FEST related to 2019/2187(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas growing numbers of people living in the EU in low or medium income brackets face affordability limits, an excessive housing cost burden and unhealthy, low-quality, energy-inefficient or overcrowded housing situations, or are homeless or at risk of eviction;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the housing problem is rarely viewed as a social home ownership issue;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas excessive tenant protection or slow eviction procedures increase the guarantees required to rent accommodation and therefore contribute to a reduction in the number of private dwellings on the property market;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 126 #
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, and to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy, hence contributing to eradicating poverty in all its forms; reaffirms its call for EU-widehence contributing to eradicating poverty; reaffirms the need for action foron a winter heating disconnection moratorium; calls on the Member States to meet the standards laid down by the World Health Organization (WHO) for adequate housing temperature; demands that the revision of the air quality regulation be aligned with WHO standards;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for an EU-level goal of endEmphasises that the increase ing homelessness by 2030; calls on the Commission to take stronger action to support Member Statis attributable to personal, individual, and structural causes, in reducing and eradicating homelessness as a priority in thecluding migration from third countext of the action plan on the EPSR; callries, poverty-driven migration within the EU, and developments oin the Commission to propose an EU framework for national homelessness strategies; calls on the Member States to prioritise the provision of permanent housing to homeless people; stresses the importance of reliable data collection on homelessnessnational housing markets; stresses that the situation is different in each of the Member States; calls on the Member States to collect reliable data on homelessness and rough sleeping, and to exchange information in order to tackle this urgent problem;
Amendment 199 #
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 forNotes that poverty levels continue to be unacceptably high;emphasises that creating jobs is the best way of fighting poverty; believes that employees’ wages should be linked to performance; calls on the Member States to ensure that workers’ wage levels allow them to live a decent life in their own country; rejects a European framework for minimum income schemes;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that EU policies, funding programmes and financing instrumentthe EU’s decisions have a great impact on housing markets and citizens’ lives; recalls onthat the Commission to develop an integrated strategy for social, public and affordable housing at EU level to ensure the provision of safe, accessible and affordable quality housing for alllow interest rate policies of the European Central Bank (ECB) have contributed significantly to rent rises and property price increases in major German cities; takes the view that renovation plans and the EU’s planned climate change provisions will further drive this increase; calls on the Member States to develop an integrated strategy for social housing;
Amendment 262 #
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 contribute positively to the implementation of the principles of the EPSR; stresses the need to refine the House Price Index indicator and to set the reference threshold for the housing cost overburden rate at no higher than 25% of the disposable income of a householdPoints out that poor people and those at risk of poverty are disproportionately burdened with high housing costs; stresses that, between 2007 and 2017, the average housing cost burden rose disproportionately for poor households in all EU Member States; points out that, in 2017, 38% of poor households in the EU were forced to spend over 40% of their disposable income, and that at 48.5% the figure for Germany, a strong economy, was above the EU average;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States and regional and local authorities to put in place legal provisions to protect tenants and owner- occupiers from eviction and to ensure security of tenure by favouring long-term rental contracts as the default option, together with rent transparency and rent control measuresrent transparency;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States to recognise that landlords are exposed to the risk of squatters; appropriate legal provisions should therefore be put in place so that squatters can be quickly evicted, as the financial losses can be significant for landlords, who are sometimes from modest backgrounds or older people who need the rent to supplement their income;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Member States to pursue housing policies that are based on the principle of neutrality between home ownership, private rented accommodation and rented social housing; calls on the Commission to respect this principle in the European Semester;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. CallPoints onut the Commission and theat, in 2017, Member States’ to close the investment gap for affordable housing as a matter of priority; calls in this regard for a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact allowing for increased fiscal space for sustainable public investments, in particular in affordable housing; calls, furthermore, for a harmonised accounting for amortisation methodology for affordable housing investal expenditure on social housing accounted for only 0.66% of the EU’s GDP, and that proportion has decreased since then; believes that various examples at national level demonstrate the need for policies to combat homelessness, and to build social housing and affordable apartments;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18