20 Amendments of Ádám KÓSA related to 2019/2187(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas access to housing is a fundamental right thatthe European Union acknowledges and respects the right to social and housing assistance so as to ensure a decent existence for all those who lack sufficient resources, and access to housing must be seen as a precondition for the exercise of, and for access to, other fundamental rights and for a life in conditions of human dignity;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas growing numbers of people living in certain regions of 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 49 #
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 in certain regions of the EU;
Amendment 130 #
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- wide action for a winter heating disconnection moratorium; calls on the Member States to meet, with particular regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, to comply strictly, and enforce compliance, with the basic rules of public sanitation and public health as well as 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 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to prioritise emissions reductions through housing renovation 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 disproportionately because of them;
Amendment 174 #
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 forrespect national homelessness strategies; calls on the Member States to prioritisecreate enough space in temporary shelters for homeless people so that nobody has to spend the night on the streets, and to strive towards the provision of permanent housing to homeless people; stresses the importance of reliable data collection on homelessness;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its call for an end to the criminalisation of homeless peoplesupport for the Member States’ efforts to provide the greatest possible number of appropriate homeless shelters for the people affected as quickly as possible, and to ensure authorities have adequate capacities and means to comply, and enforce compliance with, public health rules;
Amendment 195 #
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 neededjustified by the exceptional circumstances and are followed up with adequate and permanent solutions;
Amendment 205 #
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 Europeathe Member States to develop their own framework for minimum income schemes;
Amendment 221 #
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 232 #
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 regardillegal squatting; emphasises the urgent need, with particular regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, to enforce compliance with public sanitation and public safety rules in public spaces;
Amendment 249 #
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 strategyproposals for social, public and affordable housing at EU level to ensure the provision of safe, accessible and affordable quality housing for all;
Amendment 258 #
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 household; calls on the Member States to consider applying the results of the Hungarian scheme to reduce public utility charges (Law LIV of 2013), which rules out special taxes on the energy networks and incorporates in network usage charges the expenses associated with financial transaction fees, thereby providing cheaper and innovative energy sources for the population;
Amendment 281 #
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 evictionowners’ property rights and to ensure security of tenure by favouring long-term rental contracts as the default option, together with rent transparency and rent control measures;
Amendment 290 #
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 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Points out that the expansive growth of short-term holiday rental in citiesis extracting housing from the market and driving up prices, and has a negative impact on liveability; calls on the Commission to set up a regulatory framework for short-term accommodation rental that gives wide discretion to national and local authorities to define proportionate rules for hospitality services; urges the Commission to include in the Digital Services Act a proposal for mandatory information-sharing obligations for platforms in the short-term accommodation rental market, in line with data protection rules;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further increase investment in the EU in affordable and energy-efficient social housing and in tackling homelessness and housing exclusion, throughthe European Regional Development Fund, the Just Transition Fund, InvestEU, ESF+, Horizon Europe and Next Generation EU, and to ensure greater synergies between those instrumentsensure greater synergies between the European Regional Development Fund, the Just Transition Fund, InvestEU, ESF+, Horizon Europe and Next Generation EU in order to provide adequate resources for investment in the EU in affordable social housing and in tackling homelessness and housing exclusion;