Overview
- At a Barcelona forum, European Parliament housing chair Irene Tinagli called for innovative, coordinated solutions and a shared EU framework to tackle the continent-wide crisis.
- An EU Affordable Housing Plan is in development to set broad principles and incentives rather than highly interventionist rules.
- Spain’s supply shortfall remains acute, with experts estimating the country builds roughly half of what is needed and Catalonia facing a 700,000-home deficit.
- Administrative bottlenecks delay land development 10–20 years in Spain, compared with 3–5 years in Germany, constraining new construction.
- A new survey shows 78% of Catalans want a cross-party deal to reform land law to speed homebuilding, with overwhelming backing for a national housing pact.