The Porta a Porta movement, which defends the right to housing, this Friday called on the new infrastructure minister to clarify whether he is ready to abolish the new urban rental regime and intervene in market regulation.
“The new minister is obliged to respect the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, in particular its 65th article, and not vice versa. The new minister is obliged to take the side of those who need a home to live in,” he says. “To the Door Movement,” in a statement sent to the editorial office.
“It is vital that the new minister states from now on whether he is prepared to abolish the new city rental regime and therefore intervene to regulate the rental market,” he argues.
For this movement to protect the right to housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, who will become the next Minister of Infrastructure in charge of housing, must intervene “in the ban on evictions without an alternative to decent housing” and “in the construction of public housing.” “.
He also wants to know whether the new minister is prepared to “prohibit the collection of bank contributions on first home loans exceeding 35% of each household’s net income, mobilizing extraordinary bank profits to do so.”
In the same statement, the Porta a Porta movement says it is concerned not only about the name that will be responsible for this portfolio or the organization behind it, but also about the policies that will be followed, arguing that the next minister will change the chosen path . here for a while.
In fact, he states that the measures included in the government’s Democratic Alliance (AD) program are based on a “logic of subsidies and tax breaks” that promote the “transfer of family income into rentier capital.”
“The state is shrinking and offering a continuation and deepening of collusion with economic groups (…) regarding housing, which, combined with the proposal for “flexibility” of land use and occupation, represents a new comfort for the operation of speculative activities in the housing sector,” he criticizes.
He also states that in the past, the strategic options of right-wing parties in government “were at the service of the banks with bonuses and credit support, or at the service of funds and large property owners with liberalization of the rental market.”
Thus, Porta a Porta argues that it is essential that Miguel Pinto Luz repeal the new urban rental regime, leaving the guarantee that the movement “will continue its steady path of presenting and confirming proposals and developing struggles that will lead to the necessary solutions.”
In the briefing note, the movement also takes the opportunity to call on civil society to take to the streets on April 25 to demand “A Home for All!”, remembering that solutions can only be achieved through struggle in the streets.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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