Next week, the Government will approve a new set of measures to support families who have problems with housing credit and paying rent for their home. The Minister of the Presidency announced this afternoon that next week’s Council of Ministers will approve diplomas, “in an updated manner and with new responses” to the “needs felt by Portuguese families in the context of real estate credit.”
In addition, Minister Mariana Vieira da Silva also spoke about income support measures, noting that the measures currently in force have already covered “more than 185 thousand families.” “The expectation is that as next week there may be a response to this context and a melhoria of the diploma approved before the summer,” the governor increased at a height in which the INE foresees that the value of the income will increase by 6.94%. next year.
This Wednesday, in Porto, the President of the Government had already said that the Government was “considering what the update coefficient is for next year”, but that, “at this moment, there is still nothing defined”, when asked He asked about the renewal for 2024 of the measure that imposed a 2% brake on rent increases this year.
António Costa admits a new brake on rent increases next year
In July, in an interview with Público, the Minister of Finance had also spoken of more measures to support housing loans. At a time when there is a new increase in interest rates, decided this Thursday by the ECB, the Government will now advance with the measures that it had already outlined and which, according to Fernando Medina, include the extension of the rate bonus and also a measure that forces banks to set a rate for clients with mortgage loans at variable interest rates for two years, although more details of this measure are not yet known.
More support to cover interest on home loans. Medina announces greater bonus (not knowing scope) and fixed rate for everyone
Source: Observadora