10 Amendments of Kira Marie PETER-HANSEN related to 2019/2187(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 33 a (new)
Citation 33 a (new)
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas there is a shortage of social, affordable and accessible housing; whereas housing affordability has to be seen in its overall relation to income patterns and developments, distributional justice and excessive rises in housing costs and has a clear gender dimension;
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 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the Commission has announced an upcoming LGBTI Equality Strategy to be adopted by Q4 2020;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas the European Commission study on legal gender recognition in the EU highlights discrimination against trans and gender non-conforming persons in access to the housing market, including losing homes due to the divorce requirement of some gender recognition processes in the EU, and that access to legal gender recognition increases trans person’s likelihood of finding housing in cases where their documents match their gender expression;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Gd. whereas the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe recommended to Member States in CM/Rec(2010)5 that measures should be taken to ensure that access to adequate housing can be effectively and equally enjoyed by all persons, without discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity; whereas it recommended additionally that appropriate attention should be paid to the risks of homelessness experienced by LGBTI persons, including young persons and children who may be particularly vulnerable to social exclusion, including from their own families;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to specifically address LGBTI homelessness in its upcoming LGBTI Equality Strategy, particularly regarding youth, to create tools for enhanced data collection, to foster research across the EU and to facilitate the exchange of approaches to tackle the problem of LGBTI people experiencing homelessness between member states;
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 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that transparency on real estate ownership and transactions is vital to prevent distortions in the housing market and to prevent money laundering and tax evasion in this sector; Reiterates the obligation in the anti-money laundering Directive for the Commission to report by 31 December 2020 on the need to harmonise information on real estate ownership and on the inter- connection of these national registers;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to better protect mortgage borrowers against evictions; calls on the European Commission and the Member States to strengthen existing or, as the case may be, adopt new binding conduct rules for creditors, credit servicers and credit purchasers to avoid misleading practices, harassment and violation of consumer’s rights, at least as far as mortgage loans are concerned; such rules should particularly specify requirements for reasonable and viable forbearance measures in addition to those provided for in Article 28of Directive 2014/17/EU; invites the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal on a minimum loan to value ratio in the market for mortgage credit; calls on the Commission to consider the impact on housing markets when proposing rules on securitisation;