The Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, announced this Saturday that the government is considering making state land available to municipalities to build Housing at Controlled Costs (HCC) and changing land use rules so that more areas are available.
During the City Day ceremony in Faro, where he inaugurated two flat blocks in the Senhora da Saúde area, the minister revealed that concrete measures will soon be announced that will make it easier for municipalities to access land for the construction of Controlled Cost Housing. The new buildings, which total 90 dwellings, were purchased by families under this affordable housing programme.
When asked by the Lusa news agency about the ways in which the state could support the municipalities in making land available, the minister replied that the state could contribute "through its own assets".
"The state has a lot of assets, but it can put those assets at the service of local councils and citizens, that's what these public assets are there for," said the minister, who also highlighted a second line of action, which involves changing land use rules. "And that's what we're going to do, and it's what I said earlier, in the next few weeks it will be made public," he said.