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Fix Europe’s housing crisis or risk fuelling the far-right, UN expert warns
Unaffordable rents and property prices risk becoming a key political battleground across the continent
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Spiralling rents and sky-high property prices risk becoming a key battleground of European politics as far-right and populist parties start to exploit growing public anger over the continent’s housing crisis, experts have said.
Weeks before European parliament elections in which far-right parties are forecast to finish first in nine EU member states and second or third in another nine, housing has the potential to become as potent a driver of far-right support as immigration.
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