EU offers empty rhetoric on housing crisis, leaving youth stranded without funding

The European Union is seeking zero-cost structural solutions to the affordable housing crisis squeezing young people, aiming to keep national measures strictly cost-neutral without injecting capital or expanding fiscal deficits.

The details are outlined in an 11-page European Commission document addressed to the Eurogroup, titled “Housing in the EU: Macroeconomic, Affordability, and Structural Aspects Note to the attention of the Eurogroup.” Finance ministers debated the document during their...