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Mitsotakis to prioritize tackling Greece's housing challenge

Making housing more affordable is going to be one of the central themes of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ keynote speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair in early September. Property prices, both to buy and rent, have come to dominate the public debate over the past couple of years, as Airbnb, the Golden Visa scheme, and other factors continue to impact the market, leaving many Greeks unable to find homes in major cities like Athens and Thessaloniki. Georgia Nakou, a features editor at MacroPolis - a specialist website focused on political and economic analysis of Greek affairs, joins Thanos Davelis to look into Greece’s housing crisis and the government’s effort to put the issue front and center.

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:

Housing tops government plans for policy reset in autumn

Oil tanker Sounion ‘poses environmental risk’ after Red Sea attack

Water emergency action now a summer ritual in Mediterranean

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