04-11-2025 15:00
Housing Challenges for Young Europeans
On 4 November 2025, in the afternoon, the HOUS Special Committee will hold a public hearing entitled “Housing Challenges for Young Europeans: Student Accommodation, Youth Emancipation and Talent Retention in the EU”.
Youth housing challenges represent a critical dimension of Europe's wider housing crisis, with significant implications for demographic sustainability, labour mobility, and regional development. Inadequate or unaffordable housing for young people and students restricts access to education, delays emancipation, and contributes to the brain drain from less developed regions.
The hearing will examine the main housing barriers faced by young adults and students, including the shortage of purpose-built student accommodation, the impact of rising housing costs on educational mobility, and the role of housing in strategies to retain talent within the EU.
Members, together with experts and stakeholders, will focus on housing-specific solutions and explore innovative models, public-private partnerships for student accommodation, and ways to integrate youth housing into urban planning and regional development policies.