Executive summary Faced with rising living costs, the Foundation Abbé Pierre and FEANTSA

Executive summary With the release of the Seventh Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe in 2022, the Foundation Abbé Pierre and FEANTSA warn of growing arrears in Europe and consequently the risk of an increase in the number of evictions as the exceptional and temporary protection measures adopted during the past two years marked by the pandemic gradually come to an end. [...] The increase in living costs has had an unprecedented impact on household budgets, with 31.8% of poor households being overburdened by housing costs in 2020.4 Data on accelerating price inflation, particularly where energy is concerned, point to a severe cost of living crisis in the near future, reinforced by the economic impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 1 In the EU27. [...] The onset of the pandemic in 2020 was marked by cuts in the number of households actually evicted from their homes to varying degrees following the adoption of moratoria suspending evictions in many countries. [...] which adds to the significant challenges in achieving the now Europe-wide target of ending homelessness by 2030 Although all 27 Member States pledged to end homelessness at the launch of the European Platform on Homelessness in Lisbon in 2021 for the first time in the European Union’s history and the French Presidency of the EU Council outlined a work programme for this new platform, there is stil. [...] Although fears of a mass closure of accommodation places when lockdown restrictions came to an end seem to have been allayed for the time being, the adjustment of services during the pandemic sometimes corresponded to reductions in the number of places available as not all services had the organisational and financial capacity to make the necessary transformations.