Portugal welcomes 800 families in the emergency housing program
About 800 refugee families from Ukraine have been taken in by 23 municipalities under the emergency entry housing programme, the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing said this Monday.
“There are currently 23 municipalities with a protocol to respond to about 800, but we have no limit to continue to invest and extend to families with more municipalities to more refugees”, said Pedro Nuno Santos, in parliament, in a hearing within the scope of the debate on the 2022 State Budget (OE2022).
The minister considered the entry entry program to be an effective program for temporary housing response and insists that the program be highly available.
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“And therefore there is no reason why we cannot respond to the refugees who are looking for Portugal”, he added.
Portugal this Monday assigned 35,778 requests for protection according to people who fled the war in Ukraine, which began on February 24 the update made by the Foreigners and Borders (SEF).
The minister responds to Livre’s deputy, Rui Tavares, who also asked about the accommodation conditions for immigrants in Odemira, with which the Portuguese were “shocked” a year ago, when a sanitary fence was decreed in the region, because of a Covid-19 outbreak in this community.
Pedro Nuno Santos recalled that there is “a ten-year plan with Odemira” to respond to the “glaring shortage of housing”.
“And companies need to have the money they need to meet the needs of a much needed job and what this plan can meet with, with the need to respond in the required timeframe,” he said.
The final global vote on OE2022 is scheduled for May 27.
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