The construction of these homes follows a collaboration agreement between the municipality and IHRU, signed in 2023.
Cantanhede City Council is going to build 17 homes for low-income people as part of the Local Housing Strategy, with funding of 2.7 million euros from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR).
According to this municipality in the district of Coimbra, these 17 homes will be built as part of five applications – three in the parish of Ançã, one in the Parish Union of Cantanhede and Pocariça and one in the Parish Union of Covões and Camarneira – approved by the 1st Right – Support Program for Access to Housing, which is funded by the PRR.
The construction of these homes comes after a collaboration agreement that the Municipality of Cantanhede signed in 2023 with the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU).
In a statement sent to the Lusa news agency, Cantanhede City Council said that the document identifies the housing solutions it proposes to promote, the implementation schedule and the estimate of the corresponding overall investment and funding amounts under the 1st Right, through the PRR.
“Based on the housing needs of the people and households identified in Cantanhede’s Local Housing Strategy, the municipality has set out to promote 26 housing solutions through the acquisition and rehabilitation of fractions or buildings to be used for housing,” it says.
Investment in housing should be around 6.3 million
As far as financial programming is concerned, the collaboration agreement provides for implementation over four years (2023-2026), with a greater volume of investment in 2024 and 2025 (around 31% in each of these years), for a total value of over 6.3 million euros.
In the medium term, once the work is completed, “the dwellings created under the 1st Right – Support Program for Access to Housing will be allocated, in compliance with the stipulated objectives and deadlines”.
“At the same time and in the short term, the City Council will re-analyze the universe of people and households covered by the solutions that are the subject of this agreement with the IHRU, in order to present, if necessary, a reasoned proposal to update it,” he adds.
According to the deputy mayor, Pedro Cardoso, Cantanhede’s Local Housing Strategy responds to a number of constraints.
“This is a path that we are taking in a coherent and consistent way, because our commitment is not to numbers, it is to families. The new housing policies strengthen compliance with Article 65 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic”, which enshrines the right to decent housing for all people”, he concludes.
