17% of Europeans live in constrained conditions, but in Eastern Europe this figure is much higher. In Poland in overcrowded homes are forced to live 46.3% of citizens, in Hungary - 47.2%, Romania - 51.6%, and this is due not so much to the actual housing shortage, but with inflated standards of a united Europe, reports ee24.com referring to qbusiness.pl.
And the standards are following: in a house or apartment there should be at least one room for public use (hall, lounge or dining room), and then depending on the situation: one bedroom for couple, one for each adult, one for two children of the same sex aged 12-17, one for a child aged 12-17, one for two kids under 12, regardless of their gender. Eastern European studios can not meet these requirements.
But in Western Europe, there is exactly the opposite situation: according to Eurostat, in Belgium there are 2.3 rooms per person, and in Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark and Norway the number of rooms per person exceeds 2. On average in the EU, this figure is 1.6. The least number of rooms per person are in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland and Croatia.