Source: European Parliament
The Commission shares the Honourable Member’s concerns about the housing situation in the EU. T he Commissioner responsible for Housing — supported by the Task Force for Housing — coordinates the different work streams and will support Member States and local authorities to address structural drivers of the housing crisis.
The Commission will put forward a European Affordable Housing Plan in 2026 and will tackle systemic issues with short-term accommodation rentals and make proposals to tackle the inefficient use of the current housing stock.
As the Honourable Member has indicated, the Short-Term Rental Regulation[1] provides, in its Article 11(1), that ‘Each Member State shall appoint a national coordinator.
Those national coordinators shall act as contact points for their respective administrations for all matters relating to the single digital entry point’.
Furthermore, ‘The national coordinator for each Member State shall be responsible for contacts with the Commission in respect of all matters relating to the single digital entry point’ and according to Article 11(2) ‘The coordination group shall be composed of the national coordinator from each Member State’.
Spain has nominated a national coordinator from the ‘Sociedad Mercantil Estatal para la Géstion de la Innovación y las Tecnologías Turisticas’.
The Commission is required, under Article 18(1), to evaluate the regulation and submit a report on its main findings to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.
The Commission intends indeed to do so by the 20 May 2031 in line with the regulation. The Commission stands ready to keep the European Parliament informed of progress on implementation in the meantime.
- [1] Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1724.