Luanda - The National Housing Institute (INH) launched a mobile office in Luanda Wednesday to track, register and regularize the legal situation of properties covered by the nationalization and confiscation regime.
The mobile structure is part of the program launched on February 15, 2014 by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights to help citizens regularize their properties with the state.
According to the Minister of Urbanism and Housing, Carlos Alberto dos Santos, many citizens do not yet have legal property ownership for facilities nationalized after 1975 and others that were built, a fact that generates losses in both directions.
"The citizen doesn't have the property in their possession to serve as bank security for a loan, and the state loses out because the citizen doesn't pay taxes," the minister said.
The minister said the regularization brings this double advantage: on the one hand, it gives the citizen legal security over the property and, on the other hand, the state has greater control and taxes are paid.
Carlos Alberto dos Santos said many citizens only have the term of discharge, a document that only constitutes the average process for property ownership, adding that the service to be provided aims to help with the process of finding out more about the properties that have been built (centralities), where payments can be made and where data can be obtained.
The program for the legal regularization of nationalized and confiscated properties will cover all the state's housing assets, whether or not they are being bought and sold, under the regime of resoluble ownership or urban rental.
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