16 Amendments of Miriam LEXMANN related to 2019/2187(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas access to housing is a fundamental right that must be seen aan adequate housing is everyone´s right that is a precondition for the exercise of, and for access to, other fundamental rights and for a life in conditions of human dignity;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has aggravated housing insecurity, overindebtedness, and the risk of eviction and homelessness; whereas vulnerable groups like minorities, elderly people, persons with disabilities or single-parent families are particularly endangered by these risks;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the COVID-19 crisis worsened the situation of non- governmental and charitable organisations that are traditionally helping people in difficult housing or life situations and led to the insecurity about the continuation of their services;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas there is a shortage of social, affordable and accessible housing; whereas the availability of social, affordable and accessible housing widely varies across the Member States;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas inadequate housing conditions negatively affect not only people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life but also their access to employment and to other economic and social services or education;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put forward policies that aim 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- wide action for 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 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to prioritisomote emissions reductions through housing renovation as well as demolition 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;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to prioritisomote 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 prioritisomote 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 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for an EU-level goal of 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 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 homelessness as well as the exchange of the best practices among the Member States;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to ensure that exceptional measures to prevent homelessness and protect homeless people in the context of the COVID-19 crisis are maintained as long as needed and are followed up with adequate and permanent solutions; Ccalls on the Member States to ensure that exceptional measures to prevent homelessness and protect homeless people in the context of the COVID-19 crisis are maintained as long as needed and are followed up with adequate and permanent solutionssupport and promote the non- governmental and charitable organisations providing health and social services to homeless people and help them to protect from COVID-19;
Amendment 209 #
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 for a European framework for minimum income schemes;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to ensure equal access to housing for all 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; calls on the Council to swiftly adopt the horizontal anti-discrimination directive; calls on the Commission to launch infringement procedures against Member States which do not enforce EU anti- discrimination legislation or which criminalise the homeless;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with deep concern that the living conditions of Roma continue to be extremely worrying; calls on the Member States to promote spatial desegregation and engage Roma 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 as well as the education and public awareness campaigns;
Amendment 267 #
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; stressemphasizes 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 householdopen a political discussion on the European housing cost overburden rate with the aim to set an EU-wide policies to lower its current level;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to provide more accurate, quality and comparable data on housing markets, including at subnational level, through Eurostat (European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC));
Amendment 308 #
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 financialisation of the housing market by mid-2021; calls on the Member States and local authorities to put in place taxationappropriate measures to counter speculative investment, and to develop urban and rural planning policies that favour affordable housing, social mix and social cohesion;