3 Amendments of Konstantinos POUPAKIS related to 2012/2293(INI)
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to step up exchanges of good practice regarding social housing; urges the Commission as a member of the Troika, particularly in respect of Member States implementing the Memorandum of Understanding, to step up dialogue for the creation of an effective social housing network as a profitable social investment which will, on the one hand, create new jobs and, on the other, help protect vulnerable categories from poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Points out that the crisis has seriously reduced household incomes, causing major difficulties with regard to repayments on first home mortgages; calls on the Member States, in view of this disastrous situation, to take special measures to facilitate mortgage repayments and defer the auctioning of first homes;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15b (new)
Paragraph 15b (new)
15b. Notes with concern the fact that many Member States, faced with budgetary imbalances, are suspending operations, programmes and actions (rent and mortgage subsidies, for example) designed to facilitate home acquisition, while at the same time, disproportionately increasing property taxes in the midst of an acute economic crisis, leaving many sections of society a prey to poverty and deprivation;