The Minister of State Akis Skertsos Posting on social media, he stresses that the government is not only implementing benefits for addressing the housing issue, but has been implementing a coherent strategy for a more affordable home over the last three years, with a wealth of measures with the central aim of increasing the offer. real estate.
“This is the only way we will be able to deal more effectively the pressure exerted by the high demand for long and short -term leasing in a market that has real estate, but many of which remain closed and unused, due to age or poor maintenance. That is why much of the measures that we apply to the meters. K. Skrtsos.
The Minister of State presented 10 policies for a more affordable housing and increased housing available to buy and rent and specifically stated:
“1) The limitation of short -term lease in saturated urban and tourist areas and the stricter tax treatment of business short -term leases.
2) The exemption of owners who convert a short -term lease into long -term taxation from rent from rent for 3 years.
3) Tax exemption up to 16,000 for those owners who perform energy renovation work in their homes.
4) The program “renovate-refinement” for renovation of old closed properties.
5) Attached bank loans of 400 million euros through the Recovery Fund for energy upgrading of old properties.
6) The de facto exception to specific areas from the “Golden Visa” policy
7) The encouragement of investors to turn to old abandoned real estate, industrial, business or residential with the aim of residential regeneration.
8) The establishment of social consideration for co -operation with individuals and aimed at exploiting the large and inert real estate of the State for an affordable roof.
9) Suspension of VAT on new residential constructions
My home 1 and 2 program subsidizing the market for old apartments for 30,000 beneficiaries and households.
10) The program “Save – Refurbish For Youth”, with a budget of EUR 300 million (200 million from recovery fund and 100 million from national resources) “.
These are just a few of our policies aimed at increasing real estate supply and dealing with housing accuracy by Mr. Skrtsos, who added that these are policies that take some time to get results.
“That is why we are also applying immediate relief measures such as increasing the student housing allowance of up to EUR 2,500 and the new intervention to return a rent annually to nearly 1 million beneficiaries,” Mr. Skrtsos said.
At the same time, he noted that the government does not stop here and that in the immediate future with the supervision of the competent ministry and the support of the Presidency of the Government and the Secretary -General of Coordination, “we will further intensify our efforts to address this major social issue”.
As stated on a special digital platform, citizens will have the opportunity to get to know all the policies applied to the affordable roof and which fits their profile.
“We are creating an inter -ministerial committee with all the relevant ministries for the better coordination of our policies.
We recommend housing policy so that we can monitor both the prices on the market and the absorption of our programs on a regular basis per month.
Finally, shortly after Easter, we are modifying the institution of social consideration with new motivation to make it even more attractive to exploit the public real estate. “
“The affordable home is also a right for us, along with the growth of the economy, good and quality public health and education and safe public transport, in the top 5 priorities of the government.”
