Indicator 11.11 Severe housing deprivation rate

The severe housing deprivation rate is defined as the percentage of the population living in a dwelling which is considered as overcrowded, while also exhibiting at least one of the following housing deprivation measures: i) a leaking roof, ii) no bath/shower and no indoor toilet, iii) considered too dark.

Indicator is used to monitor progress towards SDG 11 on making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable and and towards SDG 1 on multidimensional poverty. SDG 11 is embedded in the European Commission’s Priorities under ‘A new era for European Defence and Security’, ‘Supporting people, strengthening our societies and our social model’, ‘Sustaining our quality of life: food security, water and nature’ and ‘Protecting our democracy, upholding our values’. SDG 1 is embedded in the European Commission’s Priorities under ‘Supporting people, strengthening our societies and our social model’

SDG 11 aims to renew and plan cities and other human settlements so that they offer opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation, green public spaces and others, while improving resource use and reducing environmental impacts. SDG 1 calls, among other things, for an eradication of extreme poverty and for a reduction of relative poverty and is embedded in the European Commission’s Priorities under ‘An economy that works for people’.

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