MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Definition of homelessness – E-000890/2025

Question for written answer  E-000890/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Idoia Mendia (S&D), Alicia Homs Ginel (S&D)

Tackling homelessness, which covers a range of experiences beyond simply not having a home, is of vital importance in working towards the EU’s first Anti-Poverty Strategy, as announced in the Commission’s 2024-2029 priorities.

In order to eradicate homelessness by 2030, we must establish a common framework or definition as a jumping-off point.

In view of the above:

• 1.To what degree does the Commission intend to adopt a broad operational definition of homelessness based on the three domains of the home – the physical, i.e. sufficient space to live; the social, i.e. somewhere to form relationships and maintain a certain level of privacy; and the legal, i.e. guaranteeing legal protection?
• 2.How will the Commission take ‘hidden’ homelessness into consideration as a form of housing exclusion and of insecure and inadequate housing?

Submitted: 3.3.2025