Michailidou: Housing crisis the result of an 'asymmetry of supply and demand'

Attending a treatment connected Greece's increasing lodging situation held astatine the Star Forum successful Lamia connected Friday, Social Cohesion and Family Minister Domna Michailidou outlined a raft of 43 authorities measures with a combined fund of 7 cardinal euros that person been rolled retired to code this problem, which she described arsenic an "asymmetry of proviso and demand".

She listed rent subsidies, societal lodging for onshore programmes, usage of decommissioned service bases and the 'Renovate-Rent' programs arsenic the "spearhead" of the government's efforts to woody with a occupation that she stressed did not impact Greece alone, emerging arsenic an planetary and European occupation besides linked to demographic issues. She attributed the emergence successful request for lodging to factors specified arsenic an summation successful single-parent households, the information that Greece was progressively charismatic to overseas investors, integer nomads and tourists, the maturation of the short-stay lease marketplace and Golden Visa programs. The important issue, she claimed, was the trouble of expanding supply, fixed the "collapse" of operation during the economical situation and structural issues peculiar to the Greek market, specified arsenic the precocious request for Attica and municipality readying restrictions.

Other participants successful the discussion, entitled "The lodging situation is deepening successful Greece: Real causes and applicable solutions", included main absorption PASOK-KINAL MP Dimitris Mantzos, the politician of the Central Greece portion Fanis Spanos and Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) General Director Nikos Vettas.