Europe’s heatwave deaths are not ‘natural disasters’ — they are housing policy choices

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many low-income households and almost half of tenants, struggle to keep their homes cool.

As temperatures continue to rise, those least able to adapt are paying the highest price. 

This is not an accident; it is a systemic failure.

Nearly 75 percent of the EU's building stock is energy inefficient and most homes were never designed to cope with the increasingly hot summers Europe now faces.

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