At stake are the 4,000 homes planned within the framework of public-private partnerships, which could remain unbuilt if there is no agreement on the rents to be implemented.

Speaking to Lusa, on the sidelines of the 5th Real Estate Promotion Conference, at which she was a speaker, Filipa Roseta (PSD) confessed her “anguish” in the face of the current “impasse”, between, on the one hand, the opposition in the municipality, who want lower rents, and real estate developers, who want higher rents.

“Basically, what I needed at this moment is a simple thing, is for the promoters to lower what they need a little and for the opposition to raise what is needed a little”, she summarised.

In other words, there needs to be “an alignment between the income that is viable and the income that is profitable”.

If this does not happen, there is a risk of leaving the four thousand homes planned within the scope of public-private partnerships “unbuilt”, “because the council does not have the money to build more than the three thousand new public homes that were proposed, financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR, European funds).

“We really need this in Lisbon, otherwise we’ll look in ten years and those four thousand houses won’t be built. Already reaching three thousand is a brutal effort that we are making, now the others will be left hanging”, she warned.

In front of the three hundred participants at the conference, Filipa Roseta left a “great appeal” to promoters to move forward with partnerships.