Across Europe, rents have outrun wages. Homes are treated as investments, tourist pressure remakes neighbourhoods, and more people can still work in the city than afford to live in it. Across Europe, the housing problem no longer feels temporary. It has settled into ordinary life. You see it when a room costs what a small flat used to cost. You see it when leaving home is postponed again, when moving closer to work is no longer realistic, when the same income buys less space, less calm, less future than it did a few years ago. Across Europe, housing is no longer just a difficult expense. It is becoming the line…