Grant Hall to rent tenants will benefit 88 ... - Público.pt

Nearly 90 people “on the verge of losing” their housing allowance will benefit from the rent created by the Municipal Chamber of Lisbon. The expectation of Councillor for Housing, Paula Marques, is the first monthly allowance to be delivered during the month of November.

Applications to this support program, created during the previous municipal mandate began on 2 September and ended on Thursday. During this period there were 953 people on the Internet, but only 390 eventually formalize the application, which could only be done online .

said Councilwoman Housing Publico, 88 applications received by the Lisbon City are able to be approved. Paula Marques adds that the City’s Rent Subsidy has “a range of very large extent”, addressing the essential people “on the verge of losing their homes for various reasons.”

Among these reasons include the existence of liens of the Tax and Customs Authority on houses or eviction actions, reductions in household incomes greater than or equal to 35% unemployment by one of its elements. Could also apply to grant municipal tenants who have seen the income from your home to increase under the new law of rents and have no “solvency capacity.”

Paula Marques admits that some of the authors of the 302 applications that were formalized but not validated by the local authority might, in future, to benefit from this grant the lease, if the files are successfully completed.

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support of the Lisbon is awarded for one year and covers a third of the monthly income, this income can not exceed 826 euros. Thus, the local authority, which in 2013 funding amounting to € 2.5 million for this program, will pay a maximum of 275 euros per month for each beneficiary.