Law 58-A/2020, of September 30, establishes that the extraordinary regime for the protection of tenants, within the scope of exceptional and temporary measures to respond to the pandemic, will continue to apply until the end of this year, preventing
The law came into effect on October 1 and precludes the termination and expiration of lease agreements, as well as the foreclosure of properties where tenants live until December 31, 2020.
Until December 31, 2020, the effects of the landlord’s termination of housing and non-housing leases, the forfeiture of housing and non-housing leases, unless the tenant does not object to the termination, will be suspended, as well as the landlord’s objection to the renewal of housing and non-housing leases, the six-month term set forth in the Civil Code for the return of the property upon expiration of rental agreements, if the expiration of such term occurs during the exceptional measures period, and the foreclosure of a mortgage on a property that is the executed party’s own permanent residence.
The suspension until December 31 now established is conditional on regular payment of the rent due that month.
Tenants who do not benefit from the regime of deferment of non-housing rents will have to pay the rents due until the end of the year on time to keep the deadlines in abeyance.
The recently approved Act also establishes that, until December 31st, 2020, applications may be submitted to request financial support from Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana, I. P, in cases of overdue payment of the rent due pursuant to housing leases, if there is a verifiable drop in income. This applies to the tenant with a housing lease contract who permanently resides in the rented dwelling; to the guarantor of the housing tenant who is a student and has no income from work; to the student with a housing rental contract at a distance of more than fifty kilometers from their household’s permanent residence to attend the educational institution, provided that, cumulatively, they have a decrease in household income of more than 20% compared to the income of the previous month or the same period of the previous year (the same month of 2019), whose effort rate calculated as a percentage of the income of all household members for the payment of the rent is or becomes higher than 35%.
03/03/2022