Rising housing costs push more Europeans towards homelessness

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11/06/2026 - 17:00 GMT+2

Rising housing costs are putting the right to adequate housing increasingly out of reach for many Europeans, according to the Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).

In their annual report, FRA says that house prices in the EU as a whole rose by 53% between 2015 and 2024, while rents increased by nearly 17% over the same period,, 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," FRA Director Sirpa Rautio said in the report.