Cost-of-living crisis weighs on rights: EU agency
The increased cost of living is weighing on Europeans' rights, an EU agency said in a report published on June 11, citing rising housing costs that are making people homeless.
House prices in the EU as a whole rose by 53 percent between 2015 and 2024, while rents increased by nearly 17 percent over the same period, the Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said in its annual report, citing data from EU agency Eurostat.
"Soaring costs affect many individuals and families, as more and more people cannot afford their homes and risk becoming homeless," said FRA director Sirpa Rautio in the report.
"Young people and vulnerable groups face hardships that undermine their access to the basic right to adequate housing and many remain unprotected against eviction."
