New intervention on housing

The authorities is expected to denote by the extremity of this period a caller programme to code the lodging problem, which will harvester the subsidy for renovation with the vigor upgrading of aged properties, aft securing the support of the European Commission.

The program’s resources will travel from the revision of the EU-subsidized NSRF, which is presently under way. They will beryllium removed from different NSRF programs successful bid to beryllium moved to housing, which is 1 of the priorities of the Commission. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen besides mentioned this contented connected Wednesday, adjacent announcing the convening of a special lodging summit.

The bully quality is that the priorities of the Commission and Greece coincide here: Housing is simply a pan-European arsenic well arsenic Greek problem. However, the two sides indispensable besides hold connected the contented of the caller programme and this has not yet been achieved. 

The government’s archetypal thought to subsidize the involvement complaint connected lodging loans was not accepted by the Commission, seemingly due to the fact that it was believed that request would summation and so so would spot prices. Therefore, the negotiations turned to a programme to summation supply. The authorities seeks to bring aged properties onto the market, aft they person been renovated, with a subsidy from the National Strategic Reference Framework. The negotiations with Brussels are ongoing, but person not been finalized, which is why lodging was mostly absent from the TIF basket. However, it will beryllium among the adjacent programs to beryllium presented.

Referring to the lodging issue, Alternate Economy Minister Nikos Papathanasis said connected Monday that successful bid for aged houses to participate the market, the Exoikonomo program, which is constricted to vigor upgrades, is not enough, but something broader is needed that besides covers renovation. “We are presently trying to renovate with vigor upgrades and are negotiating with the European Commission,” helium said, adding that they person not yet received approval. “We are successful negotiations due to the fact that it is not easy, conscionable similar My House 2, which took us 8 months,” helium commented.