Following the tender procedure for the allocation of 28 apartments located in Canada do Bredo neighbourhood in Santa Luzia, municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, on a sublease scheme with purchase option, the Government published today the provisional list of admitted applicants.

A total of 32 applicants were admitted provisionally 3, including one for a one-bedroom apartment, 25 for two-bedroom apartments and 6 for three-bedroom apartments. During the procedures, five applications were excluded. Applicants will now have a period of 10 working days to express their reservations about the results published on the list.

The results may consulted at the offices of RIAC - Integrated Network for Citizen Support, the Housing Services of Terceira Island on rua Dr. Aníbal Bettencourt, n.º 242, piso 2, fração AI, or through the portal of the Regional Government of the Azores on the DHR tender page at http://www.azores.gov.pt/Portal/pt/entidades/srss-drh/textoImagem/Concursos.htm.

One should recall that all the applications submitted by citizens aged 18 or more living in the Azores for at least three years. Eligible applicants cannot own property and required to have the necessary economic and financial capacity to support the rent, in accordance with the effort rates stipulated by the applicable rules and their socio-economic characteristics.

The dwellings allocated in this tender were leased to the Region. They are intended for the permanent housing of families, through a sublease scheme with purchase option. This measure is aimed at families that, despite their income, have difficulties in accessing the free housing market.

The rent will be subsidised according to the proportionality of the effort rate and the status of the applicant; priority status will be awarded to young families, single-parent families or families with disabled members.

The subsidy could reach 35% of the monthly rent supported by the Region.

The lease of these dwellings represents a monthly investment of nearly 15 thousand Euros for the Region and, like similar procedures already launched by the Azorean Government, this is one of access model to housing promoted by the Regional Government. It is intended to minimise the constraints of families in the access to housing loans.

Hence, the Government of the Azores demonstrates that it doing its best to support families living in the Azores on a daily basis.