Politicians in the European Parliament have called for a homelessness strategy spanning the whole of the EU.
MEPs adopted a resolution by a margin of 349 votes to 45 (with 113 abstentions) urging the European Commission to adopt the European Union-wide homelessness strategy.
One of the ideas put forward in the resolution is to introduce an EU guarantee to make sure that nobody in the European Union is forced to sleep rough because of a lack of emergency services.
The European Commission is obliged to reply to any resolution laid down by the European parliament in the weeks after it has been adopted.
But Inside Housing reports it is understood that the Commission is reluctant to adopt an EU-wide homelessness strategy because it says this should be left down to individual member states.