16
Jan
2023
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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Mr President, today's situation is marked by an accelerated deterioration in living conditions, rising prices and a real loss of purchasing power. The housing problem is even more central in this context, owing to speculation in rent and purchase, aggravated by successive and significant increases in interest rates imposed by the ECB, with unaffordable increases in housing loan instalments. The decision to raise interest rates puts thousands of households in a situation where they may not be able to support the payment of bank loan instalments and are threatened with losing their home. Urgent measures are therefore needed that, by cutting off the profit of banks, give families security as to the possibility of maintaining their housing. First, with the regulation of the housing market, the establishment of spreads and the possibility of renegotiating credits, as well as the necessary public investment in housing, with a view to combating speculation and exploitation and expanding the public supply of housing, which is a constitutionally enshrined right in Portugal.