“As conceived, from the beginning, the housing package is unusable. Either at the point of departure or at the point of arrival”. This statement was made by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who criticized the government’s housing measures in the program Redação Aberta, which marked the anniversary of CMTV and CM on Monday.
Marcelo even compared the program Mais Habitação with the so-called poster laws. “There’s something we’ve learned in making laws, the so-called poster laws. These are laws that seem to proclaim certain programmatic principles, but the idea is not exactly that they are put into practice. Is that the laws remain posters”, explained the head of state, quoted by the CM.
He considered that “in the very short term, [uma lei cartaz] it’s a pole of fixation for what it promises”.
“It means expectations were raised that were immediately frustrated,” he said. “It would have been better not to raise expectations, since there was a real problem and the apparent solution was unfeasible, it would have been better not to talk about it,” said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on the government’s housing program – in which part of the diplomas are in public consultation until next Friday, with the adoption of these proposals expected at the Council of Ministers on March 30.
Marcelo’s criticism came after being asked whether or not he would veto the Mais Habitação program’s diplomas. A question that ultimately remained unanswered.
Don’t forget that the first part of the More Housing program was approved last week.
One of the measures already approved is extraordinary income support, with a maximum value of 200 euros per month. It is intended for tenants with an effort percentage above 35% and an income up to and including the 6th tax bracket. It is paid automatically.
The support – which applies to contracts signed until March 15, 2023 – is monthly, non-refundable and covers 150,000 contracts.
Source: DN
