Fondation Abbé Pierre and FEANTSA published their 8th annual Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe. This report reveals new estimates of the number of homeless people in Europe and draw a specific focus to the issue of unfit housing.

The spectre of inflation

The war in the Ukraine has both highlighted and added to Europe’s ongoing housing emergency. This crisis is hitting the poorest households hardest, severely affected by soaring prices, as well as homelessness services, which have seen an increase in the number of their clients.

The Right to housing is guaranteed in the Spanish constitution (1978). Article 47 provides that one of the “guiding principles of social and economic policy” is the right of Spanish citizens to decent and adequate housing. These "guiding principles” do not receive the strong jurisdictional protection enshrined in the Constitution for "fundamental rights".

Sonia Olea Ferreras

Human Rights Officer

Key points of the Communication to the Government of Spain from the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Adequate Housing and on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights in reference to the Draft Law on the Right to Housing in process since February 2022 in the Spanish Parliament. [1]