What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

58. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give due attention to the issue of accessible housing for persons with disabilities; warns against the very low supply of accessible dwellings and the detrimental effects this has on the socio-economic integration of persons with disabilities and their capacity to live independently; calls for the housing stock to be made more accessible to persons with disabilities; urges the Commission, as well as Member States, to significantly increase the supply of accessible dwellings and to put in place mechanisms ensuring a sufficient ratio of accessible housing in new construction; calls for the full implementation of the EU strategy on the rights of persons with disabilities 2021-2030; stresses that accessible housing is a prerequisite for full social participation of persons with disabilities; calls for a targeted and effective set of actions aimed at ensuring full and consistent implementation of the housing-related accessibility requirements under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; emphasises the need to ensure both the availability and maintenance of accessible housing, as well as the provision of adequate community-based support services adapted to individuals’ functional and cognitive abilities, including supported living arrangements; supports public, public-private and private cooperative housing initiatives, including for people with disabilities, where communities collaboratively develop and manage housing projects that foster social cohesion and ensure long-term affordability; calls on the Member States to ensure the provision of comprehensive, accessible and systemic community-based services for persons with disabilities; stresses that support services provided at the place of residence are essential to enable independent living and social inclusion, and prevent persons with disabilities from being forced to seek assistance through institutionalisation;

Homelessness

59. Emphasises that homelessness is the most severe form of poverty and social exclusion; recalls that action on homelessness is primarily a competence of the Member States, while the EU should support and coordinate efforts; calls for the strengthening of the European Platform on Combating Homelessness to coordinate and exchange information, and share good practices; asks the Commission to ensure synergies between the EU anti-poverty strategy, the new European Pillar of Social Rights action plan, the European Platform on Combating Homelessness, and the European Affordable Housing Plan; calls for an ambitious and accelerated implementation of the European Child Guarantee across the EU, as a way to prevent and tackle child homelessness; calls on the Commission to provide technical assistance, capacity building and policy support on homelessness and to monitor progress in this regard; calls on the Commission and national statistical institutes to strengthen the collection and harmonisation of residential housing data; notes that the Housing First strategy has proven to help in certain national contexts, while its implementation remains the responsibility of each Member State; calls on the Member States to develop and implement housing-led strategies to reduce homelessness and to scale-up evidence-based interventions such as the Housing First approach; calls on the Member States to ensure homeless people can access social housing; calls on the Member States to adopt national targets to prevent the eviction of children in cases where there is a clear risk of homelessness when implementing the European Child Guarantee; calls on the Member States to tackle discrimination against people experiencing homelessness; recognises the role of non-governmental organisations in addressing homelessness and supporting housing stability;

Data exchange and analysis

60. Insists on the need to base market interventions on reliable data held by public institutions; underlines the role of public data in creating housing policy; welcomes the adoption of the Regulation on European statistics on population and housing which will provide Eurostat with enhanced capacity to collect data on housing conditions and access to housing across the EU; calls on the Commission to launch new pilot projects and feasibility studies in the context of the recently adopted Regulation on European statistics on population and housing, focusing on access to adequate and affordable housing for people with disabilities; calls on Eurostat to collect, analyse and share national, regional and local level housing data through a newly created dedicated EU digital platform to support evidence-based policymaking, improve transparency, monitor vacancy, under-occupation and conversion-potential and feed the EU Building Stock Observatory with additional information on the quality of dwellings and technical building systems; calls on the Commission to collect and publish gender-disaggregated data on access to housing, and social housing schemes; calls on the Commission to produce an annual European housing report to assess the housing situations in Europe, which should include data on affordability, rent and price developments, ownership of land and real estate, tenure security, homelessness and housing exclusion; calls for complementary, periodic reports on the allocation and impact of EU housing funds; calls on Member States to require local authorities to provide periodic reports on infrastructure capacity aligned with housing projects, to track vacant dwellings and to introduce incentives for owners to renovate and lease out vacant homes; calls for the EU to improve monitoring and, if necessary, provide Member States with tools for better oversight of the residential real estate market; calls on the Commission to ensure a stronger focus on affordable, sustainable and decent housing metrics in the European Semester process and in country-specific recommendations; calls for the EU Land Observatory pilot project to be put to full use to fill data gaps with a view to improving land monitoring and identifying good practices to support youth access to land; calls on the Member States to improve the transparency of their land market and address the problem of access to land for certain groups, such as young farmers; calls on the Commission to establish a methodology for the collection and processing of housing data and to define a set of common indicators to ensure comparability among Member States; calls for housing expenditure to be taken into account when measuring the cost of living, the purchasing power of citizens, and their overall well-being; calls for the inclusion of owner-occupied housing costs in the harmonised index of consumer prices, in order to better reflect the real cost of housing in inflation statistics;

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61. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the European Council, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Committee of the Regions and the heads of the EU’s regional authorities.