State spent about 3 million euros on the coast program “lease to sub -sumbarrenda”. Errors without explanation leave dozens of empty houses – some in Lisbon, where housing is more critical. Even the landlords are confused.
The Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU) spent 2.8 million in rent in the “Lease to Subarrenda” program, inheritance of the package of measures for the housing of the previous government.
The goal was to “increase the ‘public housing’ stock.” There were 290 houses – initially the goal would be 350 – that the government rented (with the maximum effort rate of 35% of the performance) so, as the name implies, to submit the tenants who applied for a contest. On average, the state pays 1,180 euros per month for each house.
However, as advances, 80% of these dwellings are empty, Some in the problematic metropolitan area of Lisbon. Only one fifth of the properties (62) are being effectively occupied.
And it is not because of candidates: there will have been 2,732 subscribers In the program, about 10 times more than the houses available. However, a system error caused them. Only 2.3% of subscribers got home.
Even so, No one can explain Because they still have no tenants in the house, and why the state is “putting money away.”
Even anonymous sources within the project, members of the coaching staff, question the effectiveness of the program and criticize the waste of money in vain.
“It is very frustrating, a disappointment. I didn’t see this as a business exclusively, I thought it was contributing to a solution. Of course I am paying another house, where I live with my family, and make me miss the money, but know that after a year the apartment is there empty, with so many people needing a place where to live, is very bad. And you think: Is that how taxpayer money spends? ”Laments one of the landlords who rent his home to the state, Filipe Ribeiro.
Now, the government admits to the DN that the plan has been “suspended for evaluation,” but, according to Estão, the state -owned company responsible for the rental of the real estate, IHRU has decided to suspend the measure before the cancellation of draws and the change of government.
