Dan Jorgensen

Well, unfortunately, it is a huge problem.

We see almost every country struggling with not having enough housing, meaning that ordinary people find it very difficult to find a place that they can actually pay for.

And if they find it, it takes up too much of their budgets.

So it makes it difficult for them to pay their bills.

We need more investments, so we will loosen the state aid rules so it's easier for countries to support the building of new affordable housing.

But it is a really very big and holistic, complex plan that deals with also homelessness.

It deals with how to make sure we standardise in the building sector so that we can construct better and have a better working internal market and so forth.

Well, last year at the European Parliament elections, we saw for the first time that housing was very high on the agenda.

And in some countries, it was even the highest question being discussed.

And this shows us that there's a huge pressure from our citizens to do something about this.

I don't really think most citizens care.

care who it is that actually makes the decisions.

They just want the problem solved by the people that they elect.

It's important for me to understand

line, it's not a ban.

We are not against short-term rentals, but it's good for tourism.

It's good for the people that are able to make some money renting out their home.

Sometimes that might be the reason why they can afford to live in that home.

But in many cities across Europe, we see that they have increasingly become a problem.

So in some cities, it's every fifth home that is actually a short-term rental now, which is far too much.