Across the OECD, rising housing prices and insufficient investment in affordable and social housing in recent decades are colliding with a cost-of-living crisis and the enduring effects of the COVID‑19 pandemic. Affordable housing remains high on the policy agenda of many OECD countries, as households struggle to make ends meet and housing accounts for an outsized share of household budgets. In the OECD, over one‑third of low-income tenants spend more than 40% of their disposable income on housing. One in ten households lives in overcrowded conditions, and one in 20 lacks access to a flushing toilet. According to the latest OECD Risks That Matter survey, conducted in 2022, nearly half of respondents across 27 countries worry about being able to access adequate housing.
This report highlights the housing challenges in Lithuania, aiming to support policy makers in expanding the supply of good quality, energy-efficient, affordable housing.
The report is the result of the work of an interdisciplinary OECD team bringing together the Economics Department (ECO) and the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS). It contributes to the cross-cutting OECD Horizontal Project on Housing, a whole‑of-Organisation effort to help governments design more efficient and effective housing policies.