The Portuguese Association of Large Families (APFN) today demanded a specific housing program for families with dependent children and sent several proposals to the Government in this regard, he said in a statement.
“Given the particularly fragile conditions of large families with regard to housing, the APFN considers it urgent to create a specific housing program aimed at families with dependent children, having today sent a proposal to the Government and parliament” with various measures in that direction, he pointed out.
The APFN thus asked for “support for acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or leasing”, interest rate subsidies and “IRS deduction of interest paid under mutual contracts contracted for the acquisition of permanent own housing”.
The association also said that the “limits of deductions for housing expenses in the IRS must be defined 'per capita' [per person]” and asked for “exemption from IMT whenever the change of housing is motivated by the inadequacy of housing to the size of the household family or by the increase of the same aggregate”.
Among the organization's proposals is an “improvement of the Family IMI, starting to consider the entire household and functioning as a weight, instead of a fixed amount, which is inadequate taking into account the diversity of IMI values throughout the country”.
The APFN emphasizes that the measures to be adopted “must take into account the per capita income of families and housing adjusted to the size of the household, without which there is no justice and families are penalised, especially the larger ones”.
The association also drew “attention to the fact that large families have a particular difficulty in accessing credit, given that the rules of the Bank of Portugal consider the effort rate to be too high”, highlighting that “it is urgent to find other measures to overcome this gap”.
The entity also said that “it is necessary that, for the purposes of leasing, a higher rate of effort (resulting from an adverse relationship between income and people to support), results in reinforcement of support for access to them and not their impossibility”.
The APFN warned of the fact that “the special fragility of families with children results from the fact that they have a greater set of essential expenses and, therefore, less financial availability”, adding that “for these families, the need for housing appropriate to the size of the household, without which the negative impacts are proven, especially for children”.
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