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Europe's housing crisis

A series from Guardian Europe on how rising property and rental prices are putting unprecedented strain on people across the EU – and playing into the hands of far-right populists seeking to blame immigrants for all societal ills 

21 May 2024

  • Tens of thousands protest in Lisbon last year, calling for more measures to fight the housing crisis in the Portuguese capital.

    ‘I’m screwed’: young adults forced by EU housing crisis to live with parents

  • Crowds of shoppers on a street in Dublin, Ireland.

    EU data shows rise in employed young people living with parents

14 May 2024

  • Architect's drawing of a cooperative housing project in Amsterdam called De Torteltuin

    ‘What if we built our own?’: young Amsterdammers fight housing crisis with cooperative build

    Group of university students awarded plot after city hall passes plan for 15 to 20 cooperative projects

11 May 2024

  • Martin Leahy strumming a guitar next to a yellow sign that reads: #HousingCrisis.

    ‘It was an act of desperation’: Irish singer on his housing crisis protest anthem

    Martin Leahy has performed Everyone Should Have a Home outside parliament every week for two years. After 100 performances, he is pessimistic about change

8 May 2024

  • Cover of the 10 May Guardian Weekly

    Nowhere to call home. Inside the 10 May Guardian Weekly

  • Hamado Dipama, who is from Burkina Faso, realised he had overlooked the line in the newspaper advert saying: ‘Germans only.’

    ‘Double punishment’: the racial discrimination in Europe’s rental housing market

6 May 2024

  • European symbol graphic

    Fix Europe’s housing crisis or risk fuelling the far-right, UN expert warns

    Unaffordable rents and property prices risk becoming a key political battleground across the continent
  • A banner hanging from the upper windows of building on a busy street in Amsterdam bears the message ‘fuck the housing market’. Pedestrians and cyclists pass by in the foreground

    ‘Everything’s just … on hold’: the Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis

    Amsterdammers find themselves at the nadir of a Europe-wide housing shortage. But some bold initiatives offer hope
  • View of Pikk Street in the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia

    Higher costs and cramped conditions: the impact of Europe’s housing crisis

    Affording a home has become a political issue as rents and prices soar and supply plummets
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