The Secretary of State for Housing, Marina Gonçalves, said this Thursday in Moita that the Government intends to increase the public housing stock from the current 2% to 5% in the coming years, with the aim of progressively approaching the European average.
“We have a goal that is to increase from 2 to 5% [o parque habitacional público], a short-term objective that will be reinforced later. When we compare with countries like the Netherlands, which have a public housing stock between 20 and 30%, we realize how far behind we are,” he said.
“We have to look at what the European average is. And our medium-term objective must be precisely that, to strengthen the public housing stock. And, since we do not have a defined final cap, what we have to do is strengthen the public housing stock from 2 to 5% and then continue from there”, added Marina Gonçalves, considering that it is a work of decades.
The Secretary of State for Housing spoke to journalists after presiding over the ratification ceremony of the collaboration agreement between the IHRU (Housing and Urban Rehabilitation Institute) and the Câmara da Moita, which provides for the construction/rehabilitation of around 330 homes. municipality of the district of Setúbal.
According to the mayor of Moita, Carlos Albino (PS), the agreement approved this Thursday provides for a global investment of 30 million euros, within the scope of the Support Program for Access to Housing, 1st Law, which aims to support the promotion of solutions housing for people who live in unworthy housing conditions and who do not have the economic capacity to meet the costs of access to adequate housing.
“We are talking, in a first phase, of building 157 homes, acquiring 10 more homes on the free market and rehabilitating 167 homes. I think that is a considerable number, a significant number in our context, but we want to go much further. Because only those who do not live here in the municipality do not realize that they have to go further,” said Carlos Albino.
The socialist mayor also mentioned that the municipality could have designated many more homes to include in the 1st Right program, but decided to go ahead with the construction/rehabilitation of more than 330 homes to take advantage of 100% financing.
Source: Observadora
