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A White Paper on the rental market has reached the stage where decisions are being taken on the way forward, Social Solidarity Minister Michael Falzon told parliament during a debate on the Housing Authority Estimates on Wednesday. However, the government wouMP suggests' social housing tax' for major developers
A White Paper on the rental market has reached the stage where decisions are being taken on the way forward, Social Solidarity Minister Michael Falzon told parliament during a debate on the Housing Authority Estimates on Wednesday. However, the government would not seek to regulate the rental market or to intervene in it directly, but would restrict its involvement to guiding its direction. Dr Falzon spoke on various schemes introduced by the government to assist persons to become homeowners for the first time, including the first-time buyer scheme and a subsidy to assist with loan repayments. He touted various social housing projects which would increase the country’s stock of housing units by 30%. Housing Parliamentary Secretary Roderick Galdes accused the Nationalist Party of sabotaging one of these projects in Siġġiewi, where, he said, the Nationalist mayor was “obstructing” a block of social housing units from reaching completion by appealing against the project and by putting unreasonable conditions on contractors. Opposition MP Ivan Bartolo said that it was unfair to allege that the Nationalist Party had done nothing on housing, calling the party a “pioneer” in the field... Read more











