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Apostolos Kleitsogiannis @[email protected] · 2026-01-27 · 12:50 UTC

HICP - Actual rentals for housing, EU, Euro area, Greece, 2000 – Q4 2025

EU and Euro area: Both show stable, gradual increases in rental prices over the 25-year period
From around 2020, Greece's annual rental price changes have increased dramatically, surpassing those of the EU and Euro area

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Apostolos Kleitsogiannis @[email protected] · 2026-01-20 · 10:14 UTC

Rent affordability spending 40% of monthly income in the EU

In 2024, 8.2% of people in the EU lived in households where total housing costs represented more than 40% of their total disposable income

Greece has the highest rate, with nearly 29% of urban residents burdened by housing costs exceeding 40% of their income

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Apostolos Kleitsogiannis @[email protected] · 2026-01-20 · 09:40 UTC

Share of population and share of average income needed to rent 25 sqm and 75 sqm apartments by type of region

Across the whole EU, only apartments of 25m2 can be rented for less than 30 % of average income
For a 75m2 apartment, tenants in most cities must allocate more than 30% and often more than 60% of average income to cover the rent

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Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 @[email protected] · 2025-08-19 · 12:20 UTC

"I was never sold on Starmer’s Labour delivering sunlit uplands. He doesn’t have a theory of change, or policies commensurate with the challenges he often acknowledges. But even I was shocked when it was revealed that Rushanara Ali, the now former Minister for Homelessness, had evicted four tenants from her East London property only to re-list it for an additional £700 a month. Besides that, the agents acting on her behalf initially tried to charge the evictees nearly £2,000 to redecorate, and an additional sum for professional cleaning. Under the Tenant Fees Act, passed under the May government, neither was permissible.

Ali resigned shortly after the i newspaper broke the story. That was inevitable given the Renters Rights’ Bill, which Ali herself claimed would “tackle the root cause of homelessness”, included the minor detail of prohibiting what she had done. Ali could, of course, have put the property on the market with the tenants remaining in situ. That is, after all, what normally happens.

The house in question is presently listed at £894,000, and is one of three Ali owns across the capital (one is jointly held with a family member). Other Labour MPs who are also landlords include Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, who lets her former South London home for £6,000 a month, and David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary. Two ideological stalwarts of the party’s Labour First faction, Jas Atwhal and Gurinder Josan, allegedly own more than 20 properties between them. As of the last election, three of the leading five landlords in parliament are Labour MPs.

All this stands in contrast to most of Labour party history."

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2025/08/labour-has-become-the-party-of-landlordism

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