Livre’s sole deputy, Rui Tavares, accused the government this Thursday of copying the party’s home loan proposal, hoping the executive branch “stole it well,” leaving behind praises and warnings.
“It took the government six months to reject Livre’s proposal, and a day later to submit it. I don’t care, as long as it’s a good steal. after about such a pirouette that they fell on their right side,” he thought.
The MP reacted in Parliament to the measures presented by the Government in the Council of Ministers dedicated to the housing sector, namely that banks were to start offering fixed-rate offers in their mortgage portfolio.
Rui Tavares specified that he had submitted a proposal so that all people who have housing loans with a floating interest rate (…) could receive housing at a fixed interest rate”, a measure that was presented in September, in generally approved in October “and in the meantime in the specialty, yesterday, after several months during which she did not submit a proposal, did not participate in the debate and only asked for a delay, PS changed its vote and decided to fail.”
As for other measures, Tavares believes that “there are some positives” such as the provision of public property for housing, calling for a “comprehensive inventory” of this.
The sole MP warned that the flexibility of building licensing “may have benefits, but entails risks” and argued for the need for “residential offices with all the information for those who need it.”
“The government will say that it has known for a long time that the market alone cannot solve the housing problem. The problem is that if the government knew for a long time, why did it take so long to act? It is better to know and act now than some political parties who say that more adaptations to local conditions or more market are needed,” he said.
The measures of the Mais Habitação program will cost about 900 million euros, which will be mobilized from the state budget, the finance minister estimated on Thursday.
“The estimated cost of the program that we are presenting today is about 900 million euros, not including in this estimate the cost of rent, work to be performed or purchases, and here including the cost of credit lines,” announced Fernando Medina.
Medina answered questions from reporters at the Ajuda National Palace in Lisbon after a Council of Ministers meeting devoted exclusively to housing in a press conference also attended by Prime Minister António Costa and Housing Minister Marina Gonçalves.
The Prime Minister explained that these funds will be mobilized from the state budget, excluding the possibility of their financing from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR).
“PRR money is not some sort of checking account that you get every time you need it. All values in PRR are distributed down to the last cent. (…) This idea that ‘there is a problem, go take it from the PRR’, it is not. This is not a checking account and not a benefit to our parents,” he said.
António Costa announced that the measures approved today will be put “for public discussion within about a month” so that they can subsequently be “finally approved” at the Council of Ministers on 16 March.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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