‘It is not understood that there are thousands of empty house’
How do you see the lease market?
The lease market works normally. Apart from a peak that there is non -compliance with the payment of lace, but it has been coming here for a while. The money does not stretch and there is no day that there is no complaints from the members that the tenants stopped paying the income.
Is due to the loss of lease supports?
This is also why, but on the other hand, we also saw others who have support and should not have. And in a scenario of non -compliance what does the landlord do? As evident promotes the eviction. The income contract ceases only that then creates a series of boring because there are many people who have nowhere to go, do not go out and stay until the eviction is proceeded.
Are there a perspective on any reduction in the amounts charged?
Reduction will not be sure, there may be a calm. For example, in Lisbon, a room costs between 400 and 500 euros and I hear people demanding a house at 50, 100, 200 euros, but only the City Hall has these prices. The Lisbon Authority has 25,000 tenants, but 12,000 do not pay and nothing happens to them so how does a house with two or three bedrooms and a room can cost less than a bedroom? It is evident that in Lisbon it is impossible to get a home for small one for less than a thousand euros. And then there is also something very important. The price per square meter of construction does not stop climbing and nobody already makes a house for less than two thousand and such euros the square meter, besides the price of the land. At this moment there is no shortage of homes to lease there is probably people with financial capacity to pay the amounts.
For having low wages…
The minimum salary in Portugal is 870 euros and with this value it is impossible to lease a house. Maybe they can if they are a couple, as there are already 870 plus 870 or if they have double job. But I guarantee that the market continues to work and with whom? At this time, for every two lease agreements that are made daily one of them is made with a foreign citizen or a foreign family, namely Americans, English, etc.
Can pay higher incomes…
The Portuguese are confronted with two types of foreigners, those who have purchasing power and immigrant foreigners. And no owner lend a house to a couple or a person who does not give him guarantees. On the other hand, there is also no rent a house that does not have a water heater or thermoacumulator or that does not have a stove or a sign, etc. All this costs a lot of money and then who pays? Traditionally one wants to independent and want a house has to make sacrifices. That is, you have to make savings, it is to renounce a number of things. Many may say that the salary is low and that they cannot save so it has to be the state to solve this problem. Article 65 of the Constitution says that all Portuguese are entitled to a house but does not say that they are the private ones who have to give the house.
What expects the next government?
I hope the same one I expected since the government that came out that it is zero. I don’t believe in miracles. This government had a very beautiful program that said it was going to revoke all the measures of the most housing and did not revoke anything. The only thing that was revoked was two or three things from local accommodation because the lobby is very strong. Regarding the vulgar owner and who has a house or a building was all in the whole degree of injustices.
