Housing costs for the disabled in Cyprus least burdensome in EU

People with a disability in Cyprus experienced the lowest rate of housing cost overburden in the EU in 2019, Eurostat has reported.

The housing cost overburden rate is defined as the percentage of the population living in households where total housing costs represent more than 40 per cent of disposable income.

In 2019, 11.1 per cent of people with a disability in the EU lived in households where housing placed a heavy burden on disposable income, compared to 9.1 per cent for people with no disability.

“In most EU member states, people with disabilities live in households where housing costs place a heavier burden on disposable income than in households without disabilities,” Eurostat commented.

Cyprus is not one of them. The overburden rate was just 1.5 per cent for the disabled in 2019 but 2.5 per cent for people with no disability. The rate of 1.5 per cent is the lowest of all EU countries, followed by 2.4 per cent for Malta and 4.2 per cent for Ireland.

People with a disability in Greece (33.7 per cent), Bulgaria (22.4 per cent) and Denmark (21.0 per cent) experienced the highest housing cost overburden rate.