Parliament rejected all six amendments that would have reoriented the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis toward tenant protection, anti-speculation measures and social standards, each falling by margins of more than 350 votes. A consensual bloc of EPP, S&D and PfE members voted the amendments down; the Greens/EFA and The Left backed them almost unanimously, while Renew and the ECR largely joined the opposing majority. This is a non-binding organisational text: it sets the terms of reference and duration of a parliamentary committee rather than making law, but it defines what that committee is empowered to investigate over the coming period and thus shapes the direction of Parliament's housing work. The votes revealed a consistent left-right line. The Greens/EFA and The Left sought to write in language on maintaining social and environmental standards during the Commission's 2027 housing simplification procedure, on speculation and financialisation, on tenants' rights and on anti-money-laundering, and to move the emphasis away from protecting private property and combating squatting. On each amendment the centre and right-of-centre groups held together against those changes, so none carried and the committee's original mandate stood.
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