The rent subsidy to support tenants with financial need was approved on Thursday by the Cabinet and will take effect from 2017.
Provided for in the law of rents, the grant is intended to support tenants who can not support the upgrading of lace and currently are benefiting from the present transitional regime, which limited the increases for low-income families.
According to the statement of the Cabinet, the rent subsidy can be applied to a lease in place, which allow tenants to keep the contract and your current residence, or, Alternatively, a new lease.
With these two options, the Government intends garantor the possibility of the lessee choose the most suitable housing to their needs and to make better living conditions, thus contributing to the boosting the rental market and rehabilitation of the property subject to old rents, particularly in urban centers.
The same statement said that the grant will be equivalent “to the difference between the new income and the income that can be supported by the lessee based on your income. “
No transitional arrangements have been included tenants with financial need and still tenants aged over 65 and the disabled with a disability less than 60% .
The creation of the rent subsidy was claimed by the owners, who until now had to accept a conditioned rents increase.
The establishment of a five-year transition period for creation and entry into force of the rent subsidy was justified by the Government by the financial situation of the country, which was under bailout of troika .
According to statements by the Planning minister Territory, Jorge Moreira da Silva, who has guardianship of the lease, the universe of families who may qualify for the subsidy now created will amount to 42,000.
The minister said that the number of families potentially affected by the measure corresponds to requests for fixed gross annual income of proof (RABC), necessary to prove the economic need, received in Finance. The RABC can be requested by families with an annual income less than five national guaranteed minimum salaries.
The numbers do not coincide with the Lisbonense Owners Association that, in a recent statement, states that the number of households to invoke financial need exceeds 70,000.
According to the Lusa agency, the minister said that the greatest impact of the measure will take place in the year 2019 and should amount to 51 million euros. The value will descend then to an average bill of 28 million euros in the period between 2017 and 2031.
At the press conference following the Council of Ministers, Jorge Moreira da Silva assured there is no limitation as value in the allocation of the grant, which will cover the difference between the new income and the value that can be supported by the tenants included in the special regime in the case of contracts concluded before 1990.
According to a example advanced by the Minister, a couple with a child, with income 2000 euros and an income in the transitional regime of 509 euros, a house with a market value (income) of 700 euros, will receive a subsidy of 190 euros.
When you rent allowance may apply for tenants with previous contracts to 1990, but exclude tenants who own other housing in the same district or in another district, or even in the same metropolitan area leased, provided the property is adequate to meet the housing end of the aggregate and does not constitute permanent residence of third.
With the creation of income allowance is complete the reform of the lease, allowing owners to update rents through a process of negotiation with tenants. If there is no agreement for this update, the current law already provides that the increase in income corresponds to 1/15 grandparents of the Tax Asset Value assigned by finances.
Owners satisfied
The creation of the rent subsidy was claimed by the owners since the adoption of the lease reform and despite the delay, the outline presented by the Minister of the Environment will meet your expectations.
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