37 houses were delivered to families in need of Cascais, as part of a municipal housing support program. The goal is to ensure that more people live in decent conditions.
A tent… that’s what, in recent times, Raúl Oliveira and the woman had closer than they could call home. The condition of homeless marks, the story of this couple.
“We have lived in worse places than this one, we sleep very badly, with cardboards and plastics on top,” says Raúl Oliveira.
Now They begin a new life that had almost lost the hope of achieving. This T1 debut is one of 37 lease homes supported that the Cascais authority has just delivered.
After 15 years in waiting listthe keys also arrived in the hands of Jaqueline Oliveira at a crucial moment.
“At home [onde morava] it was going to be demolished and it was just the moment they called me to receive the key to [desta nova] home. It was wonderful, ”recalls Jaqueline.
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosisand with a child also needs health care, says that despite working, what he earns from the cleaning services he does It is not enough to pay an income and support the family alone.
Until December, the Autarchy guarantees delivering 105 more houses, in total, says it will assign 3,600 dwellings by 2028. An ambitious goal announced in a year of local elections.
“This is not any happy coincidence, it can be sure that it will happen. They are not exactly all of them new construction, we also have rehabilitation, which will also allow new housing solutions. Some are in precarious housing conditions, but the overwhelming majority will be for young housing, middle class, midfielder Nuno Lopes, vice-mayor of Cascais.
O total investment of this housing program is estimated at 357 million eurosmost funded by the Plan of Recovery and Resilience (PRR). The rest by the municipality.
