{"id":8049,"date":"2026-03-16T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:05:10","slug":"social-housing-and-rent-aid-how-much-do-governments-spend-per-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/16\/social-housing-and-rent-aid-how-much-do-governments-spend-per-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Social housing and rent aid: How much do governments spend per person?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In response to a growing regional crisis, the European Commission launched its first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan in December 2025 to increase housing supply and address short-term rentals. Current data reveals massive disparities in state support, with per-person housing benefits ranging from nearly zero in Bulgaria to over \u20ac750 in Ireland. While the EU average for housing-related social protection stands at 1.35% of total social spending in 2024, northern nations like Finland and Germany allocate significantly more than southern economies like Italy and Spain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 20, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2026\/02\/20\/social-housing-and-rent-aid-how-much-do-governments-spend-per-person\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a growing regional crisis, the European Commission launched its first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan in December 2025 to increase housing supply and address short-term rentals. Current data reveals massive disparities in state support, with per-person housing benefits ranging from nearly zero in Bulgaria to over \u20ac750 in Ireland. While the EU average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}