Source: Freepik Author: Redaction The Government of Luís Montenegro contemplated culture in the program of the XXIV Constitutional Government , proposing that admission to museums and monuments be free for young people up to 25 years. On Sunday mornings and holidays this is already a reality in Portugal, however, the measure intends to extend the period of access , having gone to debate this Thursday and Friday. At stake is the allocation of a higher value to culture in the State Budget, up to 50%, with the target to be achieved in the next four years. Ensuring the proper functioning of heritage institutions throughout the territory, especially the Museums, Monuments and Palaces is one of the priorities of the new Government, which intends to combat the reform recently undertaken by the previous Government until the end of the legislature. The measure also wants to stimulate the regular visit of children and young people to Monuments, Museums, Theaters and other cultural facilities , as well as expand the informative offer from the second cycle of education in the areas of music, theater, dance and visual arts. The book market will also undergo a revision with regard to the law of fixed book price , and that involves evaluating the creation of tax exemptions related to the taxation of the value of books in storage, in order to minimize the destruction of books returned to publishers with an incentive of the book entities to reuse books and bet on the digital transition (e-book or audiobook) . Libraries will also have a strengthening, namely the National Network of Public Libraries, the National School Network and research libraries , through the promotion of translation and the internationalization of national literary production. Discover also: DGES points out socioeconomic inequalities in university access , Coimbra wants to attract more technological investment
Source: Freepik Author: Redaction The Program of the XXIV Constitutional Government led by Luís Montenegro has already presented its program, where it brought together a set of reforms that intend to combat the crisis that currently feels in housing . In this context, an exceptional and temporary regime dedicated to substantial reduction or elimination of rates of urbanization, construction, use and occupation and the application of VAT at the minimum rate of 6% in construction and construction services and rehabilitation and extension of deductibility . Thus, VAT will increase from 23% to 6% in all construction and rehabilitation works in general, something that professionals in the sector and APPII - Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors had already appealed , and to which is now given a response by the Government. According to the program, presented this Wednesday, April 10, the executive and temporary regime that the Government has in view elimination or reduction of tax costs in construction or rehabilitation works in buildings intended for permanent housing regardless of location in ARU, with compensation of local authorities for revenue losses (to be carried out through the State Budget with due guarantee in the Financial Regime of Local Authorities) , reads in point 9.2.1. In order to implement this measure, the Government of Montenegro shall either advance the reduction or elimination of the abovementioned rates and the application of the VAT rate at the minimum rate of 6% in all construction or rehabilitation interventions with the aim of increasing private supply, public and cooperative housing , but also a Public-Private Partnerships Program to build and rehabilitate large-scale real estate, both housing for students and general housing, and stimulate, as well as facilitate, new accommodation concepts in the Portuguese market . This last proposal involves regulation of concepts such as built to rent, Mixed Housing with urban density bonuses for affordable housing, coliving, modular housing, dual flexible use of student residences and housing cooperatives. Real estate developers are happy with measures Hours after the Program of the XXIV Constitutional Government was announced, the Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors (APPII) applauded the proposals , in particular the reduction of VAT to 6% in the construction and rehabilitation of housing, pointing out that they had long claimed by the sector. We were very pleased to see that the most important of the measures claimed by the sector was now included in the Government Program, the reduction of VAT for affordable housing, says Hugo Santos Ferreira, President of APPII, making it clear that just a joint effort to bring more construction to everyone can help solve the housing problem. About Housing, also follow: Baixa de Lisboa wants to rehabilitate vacant municipal properties , 77.5% of young Portuguese dream of owning a house or New housing credits: only 3% of the poorest families had access
Source: Freepik Author: Redaction Lisbon City Council will promote the rehabilitation of a building on Estrada de Benfica , in the parish of São Domingos de Benfica, in order to build a new building with 27 homes. To this end, on Wednesday 3 April it launched a public tender to contract the construction of the building, which will be used for affordable housing . The investment totals 5.29 million euros and the contract provides for the rehabilitation of the existing building, as well as its interconnection with a new building, to be constructed, with a total of 27 dwellings , as stated in the proposal signed by Filipa Roseta, councillor for Housing and Municipal Works. The proposal was approved at the private meeting of the municipal executive and is part of the objective of promoting the supply of affordable housing units in the city centre, a goal now defined as a priority by the current municipal executive. To this end, it will receive funding from the Intervention Plan for Dispersed Buildings (PIED), which encompasses a set of properties that are part of Lisbon City Councils assets in different states of disrepair and which will therefore be rehabilitated . According to the proposal, it will also include the construction of a collective housing building with 14 dwellings and the partial rehabilitation/reconstruction of the building with numbers 410-416, which will now have 12 dwellings (two studio apartments + 10 one-bedroom apartments) and a shop. No . 410-416, which will now have 12 dwellings (two studio apartments + 10 one-bedroom flats) and a shop , also stating that this intervention provides for a common entrance to the two buildings (on the ground floor), which has a semi-outdoor covered area and an outdoor uncovered area, and it is on this common ground floor that the technical areas and storage rooms for all the flats are located, as well as a one-bedroom flat. This work will be carried out using a public tender , which involves the appointment of a jury, which will be chaired by the director of the Municipal Housing Department of the Municipal Maintenance and Conservation Directorate, João Vargas. More topics like this: University City will have a new residence with 200 beds , New strategy for the homeless will include social integration or Évora will build 122 new homes with an investment of 26M€
Source: Unsplash Author: Redaction The Council of Ministers approved last Sunday, March 24, the projects for the adaptation of the old factory facilities in Seia, belonging to the municipality of Guarda, in student residences . This is an old ambition of the municipality, which has now been given the green light by the government. The residence will have 100 beds and intends to respond to the lack of response for displaced students, namely those from the School of Tourism and Hospitality of the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (IPG), who will soon have access to this infrastructure. According to Luciano Ribeiro, Mayor of Seia, the former FISEL factory is abandoned since Social Security took the property in 1998 and the intention was to convert the space into a student residence. Thus, with the help of ESTAMO, a public company that manages the real estate assets of the State, the municipality was able to submit the application for the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR): the company has developed the projects already approved in the municipality and this approval [of the Council of Ministers] is fundamental to the legal issues and bureaucratic procedures for the transfer of state assets, he says. The municipality now hopes that, before this decision of the Government, the School Park can launch the tender for the contract and proceed with the work, so that there are 100 beds with optimal conditions, the best in the region, having allocated an investment of about 4 million euros. Follow more themes similar to this in SUPERCASA Notícias
Source: Freepik Author: Redaction Vila Nova de Famalicão will have a new residence for students opening doors next year. Construction work began last Thursday, March 15, and the project will be called Vila. It is located in Praça D. Maria II, right in the city center, and will have capacity to install 91 residents. It was the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Elvira Fortunato , and the mayor, Mário Passos, who marked the start of construction of the project. It is a building that will have five different typologies , namely rooms, single and double studios and rooms adapted for disabled people, and that aims to respond to the needs of displaced students. The minister noted in a communiqué from the municipality: I am very happy to see an autarchy, a region, working with higher education institutions (...) (in the sense of) providing an offer to these university students, but, above all, also make them stay in the region, that is, retain highly qualified people . For the mayor, this investment in a project that is guided by its innovation and sustainability is also of enormous importance for Famalicão , as it will allow to meet the housing needs of students and researchers from higher education institutions and technological centers of the county, who currently face difficulties at this level, he stresses. This residence, which will be the first to be built in the municipality to respond to the four higher education institutions of the municipality, will have allocated an investment of about 4.8 million euros. Of this total, 3.4 million euros come from the National Plan for Accommodation in Higher Education (PNAES), which has the support of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRP) in collaboration with the National Agency Erasmus + Education and Training. May accompany Government will proceed with rehabilitation and construction of schools
Source: Freepik Author: Redaction The Municipality of Évora has included in its Local Housing Strategy a project aimed at the construction of a new neighborhood, which will be renovated through the demolition of what currently exists there , provisional for several decades in the municipality, and where about 70 families reside. This is a project for which 26 million euros are allocated. Carlos Pinto Sá, Mayor of the municipality, indicates that the subdivision architecture project has already been approved and should proceed to be launched, after the infrastructures are executed, the tender for the works: We will make every effort so that, during this year, the competition for works can be launched, says the mayor. Contemplated in the Local Housing Strategy of Évora, this is one of the projects contracted with the Government and foresees an investment of 63 million euros with the Financing of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). The objective of this intervention, according to the municipality, goes through the rehabilitation of the neighborhood , which is located next to one of the main roads of the city, finding itself very degraded . It is a provisional area, which should have been outdated for many years. Bairro Escurinho has about 70 families to live in, some of them own the lots, and we decided to move forward, not with a rehabilitation, but in practical terms, with the construction of a new neighborhood , explains Carlos Pinto Sá. Thus, the current housing will all be demolished to give rise to 122 new fires with dignified conditions, allowing rehousing the current residents who want to continue there and accommodate new ones. In this sense, the current residents will be rehoused temporarily while the works are done . In addition to this project, one of the subdivision architecture was also approved for the construction of 40 fires in a plot of land in the Moinho neighborhood, and it also integrates the Local Housing Strategy of Évora, for which an investment of 5 million euros is allocated. Follow also: AHETA wants to build social housing to capture labor , Government approves use of € 1.5 million for works in the Lisbon Metro and Social tariff of natural gas: discount of 3.1% will remain
Source: Freepik Author: Redaction The outgoing government of António Costa approved in March last year a project to expand the Metro Sul do Tejo that is now beginning to take shape, and the use of 1.65 million euros has been approved for the studies necessary for the development of the works, possible extension of the Almada metro lines to Costa da Caparica. According to the Lisbon Metro, the project aims to promote a quick and structuring link between the University Campus of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon and Costa da Caparica, extending into a corridor that will serve Trafaria, São João da Caparica, Quinta do Torrão, Quinta de Santo António and Costa da Caparica, ensuring a better connection of this territory to the current network of the Metro Sul do Tejo. And they justify: Metropolitano de Lisboa was the public entity chosen by the Government to carry out these works by the national and international experience it has in this field and given the nature of the project, the degree of complexity of the procedures inherent to the implementation of investments in public transport systems on own site (TCSP) of high capacity and the deadlines associated with financing under the Climate Action and Sustainability Program (PACS). In total, the work could cost around EUR 3.1 billion , having been considered a priority by the State, and hence be included in the PACS. More themes like this: Lisbon is the 18th city with the most population in the EU and Lisbon will compensate Lumiar in € 1.14M for cadastral error
Source: Freepik Author: Redaction The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate announced this Tuesday in Diário da República, the order that anticipates the submission of the proposal for natural gas tariffs for the period between October this year and September 2025. Thus, the social tariff for the regulated natural gas supply will remain in force in 2024, maintaining the 31.2% discount applied to the transitional tariffs for sale to final customers, from which the applicable VAT, taxes, contributions and default rates are excluded. Thus, from October 1 of this year, the discount will be applied, being, as stated by the Secretary of State, Ana Fountoura Gouveia, a measure urgent and unavoidable , being the Regulatory Entity of Energy Services (ERSE) responsible for submitting the proposal, which should present by the end of March. The social tariff is a mechanism for protecting economically vulnerable consumers and combating energy poverty, translated into an important instrument of public policy and social justice, ensuring access to this essential service with less financial effort and greater tariff stability for this universe of consumers, as indicated in the dispatch. The same law states that the operationalization of the measure will consist of an automatic application of the discount in the tariff of access to gas networks at low pressure, allowing the increase of the its scope, ensuring its applicability regardless of the intervention of its beneficiaries. Related topics: Do you know how much you spend preparing food at home? Discover , Renewable energy reaches one of the best European registers and ERSE recommends consumers to consult simulators
Source: Freepik Author: Redaction Civil servants will be granted time off on the afternoon of 28 March, Maundy Thursday . This grace was granted by the government to mark the Easter festivities, giving public workers the chance to enjoy the eve of the Good Friday bank holidays that precedes the Easter weekend, which takes place on Sunday 31 March. According to the Cabinet of the still Prime Minister António Costa, considering that it is common practice for many people to travel away from their places of residence during the Easter period in order to hold family reunions, the government has decided to grant time off in the afternoon of Maundy Thursday, 28 March, to workers exercising public functions in the States direct administration services, whether central or deconcentrated, and in public institutes . Only services and organisations that, for reasons of public interest, must remain in operation during that period, under terms to be defined by the competent member of the government will remain functional. On the subject of Easter, why not read Easter holidays: Discover the best destinations in Portugal
Source: Freepik Author: Redaction The new urban simplex to simplify and speed up processes is creating confusion in several municipalities in the country, as revealed by the City Council of Lisbon (CML), responsible for urban planning, Joana Almeida. The new legislation, which only came into force at the beginning of this month, on March 4, has not yet been fully understood by the municipalities, which are in a chaotic state because they have little time to know and adapt to the new rules. The CML leader admits that the simplex demands a whole adaptation, criticizing the Government for having set a date to come into force so tight: is a criticism that I leave here to the Government, when defining the entry into force on March 4 and approving the ordinances [that regulate it], did not give the cameras time to make it work. Thus, there are many concerns about the subject, namely how people can apply the ordinances that came out in such a short time . The doubts about the practical operation of the new urban simplex are several , resulting in a wave of opinions coming from the various quadrants of the market, however, there is still no solution in sight presented by the executive. Read more similar topics in SUPERCASA Notícias
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