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Minister of Interior Mr Konstantinos Ioannou met today with the General Secretary of AKEL Mr Stephanos Stefanos Stefanou, as well as a delegation of the party, to discuss issues related to the state's housing policy under development.
In statements to journalists, the Interior Minister said that he informed the Secretary General about the government's goal, which is "to publish, by the end of September," as he said, "a unified housing policy, taking into account all the data."
He described the meeting as very constructive and noted that "AKEL came with many proposals, which to a large extent are proposals that we are also working on. Ioannou that it was decided during the meeting that a meeting at the official level, between the Ministry and AKEL, would be arranged for the individual proposals, in order to provide more data.
There is a consensus on most of the proposals, the Interior Minister added, citing examples such as the need for a single housing body, the need to utilise land that is unused in the centre of cities, either through incentives or taxation.
The Minister also informed that the issue of the role of the Housing Financing Agency was also discussed, which, he noted, should be examined with the competent Ministry of Finance.
He concluded by thanking the Secretary General for their initiative to work out proposals as AKEL to tackle the housing problem. "Our commitment as a government is that by the end of September we will have a comprehensive housing policy, which will be dynamic and will be improved and developed over the months," the Interior Minister concluded.
For his part, the General Secretary of AKEL, in his own statements, thanked the Minister for responding to their request for another meeting on the housing issue. He informed that AKEL has completed a two-month campaign, during which it presented its proposals on housing to stakeholders, while listening to suggestions and concerns. After describing the meeting as constructive, he informed that he and the Minister discussed issues concerning the need to formulate an integrated state housing policy.
"We discussed issues concerning the formation of a body that will elaborate the strategy, coordinate and monitor the implementation of housing policy programmes and actions. We stood in particular on the issue of changing the status of the Housing Financing Agency," the General Secretary of AKEL said, among other things.
In conclusion, Mr. Stefanou noted that they would come back to submit proposals in an effort "to work creatively and helpfully towards the realisation of the goal of having an integrated state policy".
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