ARESP insists on making changes to onerous measures for local housing

“a AHRESP obtained this veto right with satisfaction, which now opens a new opportunity for dialogue between all political forces, and calls for a broad consensus – which was also confirmed by the President of the Republic – to amend the proposal on serious measures for AL [alojamento local] It focuses on the real causes of the housing crisis and on the role that the state itself can play in this regard,” she defended the association in a statement it sent to newsrooms.

The association has noted the “negative impact of this legislative proposal” by the government on housing, particularly the “harm it will cause” on AL which is experiencing “a waiting period for some private investment, without which no global solution is possible”. Insufficient”.

On Monday, the President of the Republic vetoed the decree that compiled the main amendments to the housing legislation – with changes in terms of rental contracts, licensing or local housing – approved in Parliament on July 19 by the Socialist Party, which had already announced that it would confirm at the beginning the next legislative session.

In the letter accompanying the certificate’s return to Parliament, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza expressed a “quiet negative judgment” of the proceedings and criticized the party’s incompatibility.

“It is not easy to see where the promised housing offer will come from effectively and quickly,” he said, adding that it is “not credible enough” in terms of implementation or mobilization in the short term.

Marcelo Rebelo de Souza highlighted that it was a political reversal rather than a constitutional one, assuming a disagreement with the government’s choices and the PS’ majority in the process, and asserted that the testimony “does not represent the national base of support that was necessary”.

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