We see and feel it every day: workers who can no longer afford the city they build, young people who cannot leave their parents' home, tenants pushed out of their neighbourhoods after renovation, empty buildings while people sleep on the street. The current housing market is putting profit over people and the planet.

Europe's buildings are expensive, empty and broken. But it does not have to be this way! The buildings exist, as do the approaches to make them accessible and permanently affordable. What is missing are the rules to fix it!

This initiative demands the Right to Housing! Now and Forever: stop speculation, guarantee long-term affordability, convert vacancy, boost renovation, create a right to remain, invest in people – and an EU Housing Agency to coordinate it all.

We call on the European Commission to act and the citizens of Europe to sign. It is our turn to shape the rules that define housing across our continent.