The More Housing legislative package, proposed by the government and approved only by Parliament with the votes of the PS, was published this Friday in Diário da República and will enter into force on Saturday.
The various legal changes resulting from the proposed measures will enter into force almost eight months after the presentation of Mais Habitação by the government, on February 16.
The program was rejected by the entire opposition (the only deputies from PAN and Livre abstained), with various arguments.
On the left, they demanded a ceiling on rents, a reduction in home loan payments, the suspension of evictions, the fight against real estate and financial speculation and a ban on the sale of houses to non-residents.
On the right, the government was accused of attacking private property and harming families dependent on local housing.
The package was finally made feasible on July 19 by the Socialist majority in Parliament, but still faced a veto from the President of the Republic, who returned it to deputies in August, citing the lack of political consensus on criticized the issue and expressed a “negative opinion” on the proposed measures.
The PS then announced that it would re-approve the proposal without any changes, which finally happened on September 22, after parliamentary review.
Responding to the presidential veto, Housing Minister Marina Gonçalves pointed out that the executive’s proposal was “mature” and took into account different opinions.
The most controversial and controversial measures of Mais Habitação include the suspension of the registration of new local accommodation outside low-density areas and an extraordinary contribution to this business, the forced rental of houses that have been vacant for more than two years and the imposition of a limit on the value of new rental contracts for homes already on the market.
The package also provides for a capital gains tax exemption for owners selling houses to the state, the end of the new ‘golden’ visas, an increase in the deduction for family members under the Family Municipal Property Tax (IMI), changes to the autonomous tax rate property income and tax exemptions for owners who remove their homes from local accommodations by the end of 2024.
The government’s measures have also been challenged on the streets, where tens of thousands of people demonstrated on September 30, demanding a “house to live in” and a “planet to inhabit.”
Source: DN
