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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley, Europe correspondent

European progressives must tackle housing crisis to beat far right, say researchers

Demonstrators wheeling a large model house along a street as part of a larger march
Demonstrators in Lisbon protesting about rising rents and house prices across Portugal in 2024. Photograph: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy

Centre-left parties can build a broad new coalition of support if they tackle Europe’s deepening housing crisis, researchers have said – but continuing to ignore it risks pushing increasingly fed-up voters into the arms of the far right.

Research by the Progressive Politics Research Network (PPRNet) suggests dramatic rises in the cost of housing over recent years have eroded support for centre-left parties – once the champions of affordable housing – and fuelled anti-establishment disaffection.

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