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This chapter discusses the role – past and present, actual and potential – of the European Union (EU) in managing the tension between the market and social sides of housing. Despite never having been endowed with formal competence, the EU has always directly or indirectly influenced its Member States’ housing policies. To discuss this influence, we will look at the impact of other policy areas and of the way Cohesion Policy has dealt with housing. Concluding that the EU has overall played a role in fostering the financialisation of housing, but that some recent signs exist of the possible emergence of a different perspective, we move to presenting a number of ideas that can improve the role of the EU in pushing toward the social side of housing.
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housing policy Cohesion Policy EU policy financialization
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Tosics I., Tulumello S. (2021). Between markets and social rights: confused EU housing policies. In Rauhut D., Sielker F., Humer A. (eds.), EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance. Territorial, Social and Economic Challenges, pp. 244-259. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.