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23/04/2025 | 17:39
Mitsotakis: Affordable housing is a right for everyone and the state’s obligation
“A coherent housing policy is our central priority. We know that it is a major problem that we must address. “Citizens should know that when we surpass our goals, our government’s first concern is to take care of our fellow citizens who are in a difficult situation.
“We judged that the surplus should be allocated to people who rent, to low-income pensioners, whose assistance should not be called into question or depend each year on our fiscal performance, but also to the Public Investment Programme, which, among other things, leads to the creation of new jobs,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during his visit to the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family on Wednesday.
Mitsotakis emphasised that “affordable housing is a right for everyone and an obligation of the State,” and noted that Tuesday’s announcements were the result of a prudent and successful fiscal policy: “This is what allowed us to surpass our fiscal targets and return the surplus to citizens through targeted policies.”
According to government sources, during the meeting at the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family, the planned electronic platform was presented for the first time, where citizens will be able to easily, with a few clicks, search for housing programs that interest them and for which they meet the criteria.
Also, according to the same sources, the establishment of a special observatory to monitor all aspects of housing policy was examined.
Furthermore, the prime minister stressed that the refund of one rent is only one measure to address the housing problem and recalled that “our government has developed a coherent housing policy programme that concerns supply and demand,” citing, among other things, the emblematic, as he described it, measure of social compensation, the restrictions on short-term rentals in areas that have been defined as saturated, the “I Renovate – I Rent” programme, as well as the tax exemption of up to 16,000 euros for owners who proceed with energy upgrade work on their properties.
Source: ANA – MPA
