AKEL is in favour of a socially oriented housing policy, said Valentinos Fakontis, AKEL MP, speaking on Wednesday before the plenary session of the Parliament for the debate on the 2023 budget. He referred to a "managerial" budget that does not listen to the needs of the people and the energy crisis, adding that there is an increase in spending and public surpluses, while development spending is not implemented, asking why some of the surpluses are not returned to the real economy."
"Under the Anastasiades-DISY government, the lowest rates of implementation of the state's development budgets are historically recorded," Fakontis said. "According to official data, one in three projects included in every budget by this government is never implemented," he added. "The neoliberal economic policy of the Anastasiades-DISY government has reduced public investment and sold off public wealth," he said, citing the privatization of the Limassol port as an example."
Referring to the government's housing policy, Mr. Fakontis said that the announcements on affordable housing remained on paper and securing housing was becoming a pipe dream, adding that AKEL was in favour of a socially oriented housing policy, recommending, inter alia, that emphasis be placed on housing construction programmes by the state and local government, that low-rent or rental housing be allocated on the basis of socio-economic criteria, and that plans and incentives for permanent settlement in the countryside be improved.
Source: CNA
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