In a context of close cooperation of the Ministry of Digital Governance with the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, as well as with the involved Ministries of National Economy and Finance and Interior, the submission of applications, through gov.gr, for temporary subsidized rent or shared housing for citizens whose homes have been affected by recent natural disasters.

In particular, the citizens affected by the natural disasters of the months of July – September 2023, have the possibility to digitally submit their application for the temporary housing subsidy in the form of a rent or co-housing subsidy to cover the costs of temporary housing for residents affected by the fires and the floods.

Particularly:

For those affected by the fires of July and August 2023, the subsidy concerns cases where their main residence has been declared temporarily unfit for use or dangerous or dangerously unstable or completely damaged or constructed of inferior materials and is granted for two years for owners and users and six months for renters.

For those affected by the floods of September 2023, the subsidy concerns cases where their main residence:

has been declared temporarily unfit or dangerous for use or dangerously dilapidated or completely dilapidated or constructed of inferior materials and is granted for two years for owners and freehold users and six months for tenants, or has been included in “Category C” for the grant one-time emergency financial assistance and has not been declared temporarily unfit for use, dangerous for use, constructed of inferior materials, dangerously unstable or completely damaged and is granted for three months for owners, free users and tenants.

Those interested can find the applications either through gov.gr by selecting the natural disasters subcategory in the Citizen and Everyday life category, or directly at arogi.services.gov.gr.

Submitting the application is done in a simple and friendly way.

More specifically, for the temporary housing subsidy process, citizens:

They log in with their personal TAXIsnet passwords.

They register or confirm in the application the data required by law for the application – responsible declaration for the grant of the rent/cohabitation subsidy and submit it.

With the submission, the application is sent electronically to the General Directorate for Rehabilitation of the Effects of Natural Disasters of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, where after the relevant autopsies and checks are completed, the process is completed by issuing a decision to determine the beneficiary of a temporary housing grant.

The applications are stored in the citizen’s personal inbox at my.gov.gr and bear the validity characteristics of gov.gr, i.e. the unique code number in alphanumeric format and in QR format, as well as the advanced electronic signature of the Ministry of Digital Governance. In addition, it is emphasized that they are valid when they are traded both as an electronic document and as a paper document.

The design and development of the service was done by the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, the General Secretariat of Information Systems and Digital Governance and the National Network of Technology and Research Infrastructures (EDYTE SA – GRNET) of the Ministry of Digital Governance.

Citizens’ data is collected through the Interoperability Center of the General Secretariat of Information Systems and Digital Governance of the Ministry of Digital Governance.