Her immediate start of the “Renovate – Rent” program for the renovation almost 12,500 closed houses the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family announced from the floor of the Parliament Sophia Zacharakis.

After the passing of the favorable addition that provides for the possibility of advance payment of part of the subsidy to the beneficiaries of the program and the possibility of participating in the program of owners or usufructuary with a percentage of ownership/usufruct equal to 50%, it is expected that the relevant KYA will be issued immediately and the applications platform will be put into operation.

In collaboration with DYPA it is estimated that within the next week and after the transfer of resources from the Ministry of National Economy to the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family, the Joint Ministerial Decision should be published. On the day that the CPA is published, the platform for applications will be opened on gov.gr.

The budget of the program is 50 million euros. It provides for its subsidy 40% of the renovation up to the amount of 10,000 euros. With maximum advance 2000 euros. Necessary conditions for the houses to be declared closed in E2 and to be available for long-term leases.

In her speech to Parliament the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family reported on the government’s program and housing policy:

“To make the program more attractive an advance payment of approximately half of this subsidy of 40% on the final amount of the renovation is provided which can reach €10,000. The goal is all these empty apartments which are hundreds of thousands. To give an incentive to owners and owners to be able to open some of them, which are declared vacant for the last 3 years in E2. The ultimate goal is to be able to expand the housing stock constantly young people, new families etc are looking for housing and rents are rising. The specific program is not alone but is part of a structured housing policy, which the Prime Minister mentioned a few days ago here in the Parliament in response to a topical question of PASOK leader Mr. Androulakis. What are we doing about housing policy overall? We have 2.3 billion in housing programs. Already through “My Home” almost 4,200 disbursed loans at the end of the year, it will be 9,800, we are now moving forward with the shake-ups, we will also start the Social Compensation program. Important measures to deal with the housing problem”.