This Thursday, Parliament is discussing measures to combat the housing crisis. The meeting begins after the Council of Ministers announced three new measures to support families: reducing and stabilizing mortgage payments, strengthening interest subsidies and extending the suspension of early repayment fees.
It is worth remembering that last month the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, vetoed the Mais Habitação program due to the lack of political consensus on the topic.
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Updated September 21, 2023 | 17:30
PCP says government measures protect banks
Bruno Diaz, PCP deputy, said those who approve of these measures are the bank owners.
According to the communists, these measures are aimed at protecting banking activities.
“Houses you can live in”: protesters interrupt the work of parliament. PSP identified about 20 people
Representatives of the local hotel industry interrupted a discussion about the housing program in the galleries of the Assembly of the Republic.
“Houses to live in,” they chanted.
PSP identified approximately 20 protesters.
SDP criticized the absence of PS in parliament
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) criticized the absence of the government at the meeting of the Assembly of the Republic.
“PS lives in another world.” Mariana Mortagua criticized the Mais Haitação program
The representative of the Bloc Esquerda (BE) begins by criticizing the Mais Habitação program. “There are desperate people who have nowhere to live, nowhere to plan their lives, nowhere to have children. The program does not solve a single problem. PS lives in a different world,” he said.
Mariana Mortagua highlights three measures that she believes could help improve people’s lives: capping rents based on location, forcing banks to reduce fees based on their profits, and banning the sale of houses to tenants.
Andre Ventura calls the “More” housing program “the most ungrateful act in the history of democracy.”
André Ventura, leader of Chega, begins the speech by emphasizing that the approach to local placement in the Mais Habitação program “is the most thankless act in the democratic history of Portugal.”
“This is the face of failure, and the face of failure is António Costa and the PS government,” he stressed.
Author: Diogo Carreira
Source: CM Jornal
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