The municipality of Funchal will not suspend local accommodation

The Mayor of Funchal (PSD/CDS-PP), Pedro Calado, said today that it is not necessary to suspend local accommodation in the municipality, noting that the sector has contributed to the recovery of real estate.

“Today, in the municipality, there are 2,275 local accommodation licenses, this in a universe of more than 40 thousand permanent dwellings for residence, which means that the overall ratio of the municipality is between 4.7% and 5%,” he said at the end of the weekly executive meeting.

Pedro Calado said there was a predominance of local accommodation in downtown Funchal, especially in the parish of Sé, stressing that “it was thanks to local accommodation that urban rehabilitation advanced, allowing the recovery of properties, which is bringing more people to the centre”.

In his view, in this sector, there is still “room for manoeuvre to maintain the activity”, which is being monitored regularly, “not yet the time for suspensions, not least because the Câmara do Funchal wants to make the patrimonial recovery of vacant or degraded buildings”.

Pedro Calado also announced that the construction of 33 new housing units in the area of Nazaré, in the parish of São Martinho, in a contract worth around 4.2 million euros (around 500 thousand euros below the base value), will begin in the last quarter of this year.

Another decision taken today was the approval of contracts for the provision of cleaning services in all municipal buildings, involving two companies, worth 1.4 million.

The municipality also approved the continuation of support for higher education students, with the allocation of two million euros, of which 1.5 million have already been paid.

“We will continue to strengthen social support,” he said.

Source: Pulse Portugal