Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb

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Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/europe-financial-sector-house-prices-politics

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no
“The housing crisis is now as big a threat to the EU as Russia,” Jaume Collboni, the mayor of Barcelona, recently declared. “We’re running the risk of having the…

This story appeared on theguardian.com, 2025-07-07 04:00:02.