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"Madam President, of course I, too, find it important for the Commission to take action in coordinating, monitoring and assisting Member State homelessness policies in all those areas mentioned in the draft Parliamentary resolution and at the Consensus Conference on Homelessness. I would, however, like to highlight two aspects which, being new phenomena, require special treatment. On the one hand, as a social consequence of the crisis, we have severe and long-term unemployment and the debt crises of families, the inability of many to repay their home loans. This is particularly crippling for those who took out loans in continuously appreciating foreign currencies, especially in Swiss francs.
Both of these carry the risk of people losing their homes, and require special preventive measures, including measures such as a review of whether the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive needs to be tightened at a European level. The other phenomenon I would like to mention is that we see with increasing frequency the involvement of the police in dealing with homelessness: discrimination against homeless people, their removal from public spaces in ways that violate their human dignity, and their being threatened with penalties and detention. As stated several times today, homelessness is an extreme form of poverty. This needs to be accorded special attention within the European platform against poverty, and its human rights implications must also be treated as a priority."@en1
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