Without a “decent housing alternative”, a “situation likely to worsen” thanks to “exponential increase in housing prices“, several public servants and their spouses or family members live irregularly in State function houses that, by law, they should have vacated. The phenomenon is not officially dimensioned, but it is significant enough for the Government to have decided to act on it: next month, an extraordinary regime for the regularization of occupations of function houses will come into force, through which the right to housing of civil servants or their family members who live in these houses will be recognized, as long as certain requirements are met and upon payment of a rent calculated according to the income.
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