EU can use 'significant legislative levers' to deliver affordable housing

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen signalled that the European Affordable Housing Plan would offer a 'radical overhaul' of how the EU tackles housing.

The European Union can use “significant legislative levers” to help ensure the delivery of affordable housing in Ireland, Chambers Ireland has said, ahead of the publication of the bloc’s first ever European Affordable Housing Plan next month.

The business networking body has also urged the EU to provide clear and straightforward regulatory frameworks for housing while discouraging the “gold-plating” of EU regulations at national level, which Taoiseach Micheál Martin has claimed is hampering infrastructural development for major housing projects here.