POMIDA sent a letter to the Prime Minister regarding its proposals for creating incentives to increase the supply of rental housing, in view of his announcement to the TIF of measures on this matter.

In its letter, POMIDA points out that a successful intervention by the State for the renovation and offer to tenants, of houses for main residence use, should include serious incentives to increase landlords, improving the operating framework of the private sector, and available houses on the market, essentially helping the energy and functional upgrading of existing houses that gradually have put off the market due to the inability of their owners to renovate them. Any other “rental type” measure will take us 50 years back, with the first victim being the tenants themselves, and especially their new generation!

The full text of the letter is as follows:

To the Minister of State Mr. Giorgos Gerapetritis

To Minister of Environment and Energy Mr. Kostas Skrekas

To the Minister of Justice Mr. Kostas Tsiaras

To the Minister of Digital Governance Mr. Kyriakos Pierrakakis

To the Minister of Internal Affairs Mr. Kostas Skrekas

The Deputy Minister Minister of State Mr. Nikos Tagara

The General Secretary H.S. & of Urban Environment Mr. Efthimios Bakoyannis

Comm. To: The President of the TEE Mr. Giorgos Stasinos

In here Athens, 30.5.2022

SUBJECT: Request for the reconstruction of parcels of land under four (4) acres.

The protests of owners from Attica, but also other parts of the country, are intensifying for the multiplication of the ENFIA tax on owners from all over the countrywho have rights in properties worth more than 400,000 euros each, in relation to owners who own property of equal value but distributed among several properties of lesser value, but also those who have property exceeding 500,000€.

The situation is not rectified by the “firefighter” exemption of plots of land up to 5% which concerns a minimum number of owners, and, combined with the huge rise in property values, leaves tens of thousands more exposed to confiscatory overtaxation , who are called upon to finance in a bloody way the reductions of the balances…

As we emphasized, these arrangements violate article 4 of the Constitution which stipulates that all Greeks participate in the public burdens without discrimination and according to their strengths, which the Scientific Service of the Parliament also pointed out in its report. They also violate Article 21 for the protection of the family since they introduce a targeted burden of overtaxation of the family property, taxing each member of the family – an undivided co-owner, calculating an incremental rate as if each owned the entire property. 

In order to immediately solve the problem of 15-20,000 “trapped” citizens due to the inability of the state services (Municipalities and D.O.Y.) to issue the necessary documents, it seems that the competent government agents are oriented, following the letter from 11.4.2022 sent by the presidents of the property owners Mr. Stratos Paradias and the notaries Mr. Giorgos Rouskas, in order to give to the citizens who could not complete their real transactions until 31.3 .2022 due to the workload of the government agencies, the possibility of drawing up real estate transfer contracts until 31.5.2022 based on engineer’s certificates that were legally issued until 31.3.2022.

The text of the letter is as follows: