Africa-Press – Angola. The Secretary of State for Public Works, Manuel Molares D`Abril, this Monday exhorted the National Housing Institute (INH) to encourage the reappearance of conservation and rehabilitation companies for private and public properties, in order to review the technical condition of these infrastructures.
According to the official, the existence of these companies will also reinforce the performance of INH staff in the future.
“(….) The Institute should encourage the reappearance of companies for the conservation and rehabilitation of private and public properties, in order to review the technical situation of these infrastructures, as well as to reinforce the performance of its staff in the perspective of the future”, he underlined. .
Manuel José da Costa Molares D’Abril issued this guideline when opening the Second Extended Meeting of the INH Board of Directors, on behalf of the Minister of Public Works, Urban Planning and Housing, Carlos Alberto dos Santos.
On the occasion, the Secretary of State for Public Works referred that the Institute’s vision, at this meeting, is to improve its services, with a view to making processes and procedures faster and safer, with regard to the management of the national building stock.
Manuel Molares D`Abril advised that the beneficiaries of the “Assisted and Directed Construction Programs” be properly registered, giving more responsibilities to the INH, which should accompany the projects in the provincial governments at this stage.
In turn, the director general of the INH, António José da Silva Neto, said that the aforementioned extended meeting, which ends at the end of the afternoon, aims to balance the performance and functioning of the institution and program the five-year period 2023 – 2027, to improve the sector’s performance.
The National Housing Institute is also committed to working to collect more rents, which are not paid and the debtors are not held accountable, as well as to improve the registration of properties, conservation and protection of State properties.
Among the subjects under debate are the “licensing of the real estate brokerage activity” and the “registration of the real estate fundraising exercise”, competences of the INH, whose statutes do not foresee services to carry out these tasks.
By the way, the INH is taking advantage of this second extended meeting, which will produce a Final Communiqué, to adapt its structure to the Organic Statute, to put in perspective and to program the actions related to the period 2023 – 2027.
The National Institute of Housing is an organ of the Ministry of Public Works, Urbanism and Housing, and has its organic statute approved by Presidential Decree No 121/14, of June 4, whose social objective is to carry out the country’s housing policy.
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