Informação: Regional Government promotes sessions to disseminate support for urban regeneration and rehabilitation
The Government of the Azores, through the Vice-Presidency, promotes two dissemination and clarification sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20 and 21. They will provide information on the support for investment in urban regeneration and rehabilitation under the Financial Tool for Urban Rehabilitation and Revitalisation - IFRRU 2020. The sessions are aimed at individuals, companies and other e... Mais >>

Informação: Redevelopment of regional viewpoints is "main priority for the Regional Government" says Ana Cunha
The Regional Secretary for Transport and Public Works stated that the redevelopment of viewpoints and recreational areas on all islands of the Azores is "more than a mere obligation, it is main priority for the Government of the Azores." Ana Cunha spoke at the Lisbon Travel Market during the presentation of the redevelopment projects of viewpoints, an intervention promoted in conjunction with the... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government monitors families affected by landslide in Lajes do Pico
The Government of the Azores, through the Regional Directorate for Housing and the Azores Social Security Institute, is monitoring the situation of residents affected by the landslide that occurred Thursday in the village of Ribeiras, municipality of Lajes do Pico. In close cooperation with local authorities, five families were provisionally rehoused, making up a total of 16 people. Their dwellin... Mais >>

Informação: Azores to have archaeological risk charter, announces Avelino Meneses
The Regional Secretary for Education and Culture revealed in Ponta Delgada that the Azores will now have archaeological risk charters for the sites classified as being of public interest. Avelino Meneses who was heard by the Committee on Social Affairs of the Legislative Assembly about the proposal to amend the legal scheme on the management of archaeological heritage. He informed that the change... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government allocates over half a million Euros for recovery of degraded housing on São Miguel
The Regional Government, through the Regional Secretariat for Social Solidarity, allocated today a package of support for the rehabilitation of degraded housing in the 16 villages of the six municipalities on São Miguel Island. The support amounts to over a half a million Euros. "It will be distributed by16 villages throughout the island of São Miguel, benefitting 129 people," said Andr... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Directorate for Housing collects contributions for diagnostic phase of Housing Agenda 2017-2031
The Regional Director for Housing met today with the Board of AICOPA - Azores Building Industry and Public Works Association in the context of hearing process and collection of contributions to the diagnostic phase of the Housing Agenda 2017-2031. Orlando Goulart stressed that the document "aims to define housing policies in various areas in this time frame until 2031," such soil occupation as we... Mais >>

Informação: Contract work for adaptation of former Marie d'Anjou cannery into museum to start Friday
The contract work for the adaptation of the former Marie d'Anjou cannery into the new facilities of Francisco Lacerda Museum in Calheta, São Jorge Island, begins Friday, January 5. The work was awarded to the consortium AFAVIAS Açores and AFAVIAS Construções. With a budget of three million Euros and seventy thousand Euros, plus VAT at the legal rate in force, it is expected to ... Mais >>

Informação: Housing support is a partnership established between the Region and beneficiary families, says Vasco Cordeiro
The President of the Regional Government highlighted on Terceira Island the Government's "political option" to guarantee Azorean families their right to housing. However, he stressed that this not about the allocation of houses, but rather a partnership that is established between both parties. What is at stake is a "contract, a partnership and a relation in which the Region provides housing, but... Mais >>

Informação: Government of the Azores invested 4 million Euros in the housing sector on São Miguel Island in 2017
The Regional Secretary for Social Solidarity revealed in Lagoa, that, since the beginning of the legislative period, "the Government has invested nearly 4 million Euros in the housing sector on São Miguel Island," distributed by various support programmes provided by the Regional Directorate for Housing. "The Government has allocated one million euros for the rehabilitation of degraded housin... Mais >>

Informação: New financial tool allows revolution in urban regeneration and rehabilitation in the Azores
The Vice-President of the Government stated in Angra do Heroísmo that the implementation of the Financial Tool for Urban Rehabilitation and Revitalisation - IFRRU 2020 represents "a unique opportunity" to promote "a revolution in urban regeneration in the Azores." The measure is directed to individuals, private entities, companies and other entities. "Today, we have a unique opportunity in te... Mais >>