National governments and Brussels policymakers need to address the housing crisis facing Europe if they want to overcome growing support for populist politicians, the first European commissioner for housing has said.

Dan Jørgensen, the centre-left Danish politician overseeing housing and energy policy in the European Commission, said housing policy was an area the EU’s powerful executive body had traditionally kept out of, but that had to change.

“If we don’t as policymakers take this problem serious

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