The Guardian view on Europe’s housing crisis: time for the EU to get radical | Editorial

Soaring rents and mortages are undermining the social fabric of member states. A coming Brussels plan for affordable housing must be boldAn entrenched housing crisis was one of the dominant themes in last week’s Dutch election, and it is not hard to understand why. House prices in the Netherlands have doubled in the past decade, and a new-build home costs 16 times the average salary. Across the EU, affordability is not just a life-limiting problem in notoriously expensive property markets