Protest signs reading “I want to be able to afford rent on the minimum wage,” “Social housing, not residential complexes,” “Rent for people, not for profit.” Over the last two decades in Romania, the housing question has received more attention than before, from left-wing as well as, at certain times, liberal or even right-wing organizations, alliances, and/or political actors. The country has the highest rate of overcrowding in homes in the EU (which it joined 2007) and a large p...
