The municipality extends a helping hand to single, disabled and parentless residents of Vilnius who have left foster homes - the municipality will help them rent apartments and help them settle in at the beginning of independent life. The City Council today approved the proposal to allocate an additional 300 euros to the disabled and 200 euros per month to those left without parental care and waiting for social housing in addition to the 92,43 euros allocated by the state. In this year's budget, more than 338 is allocated for the compensation of the part of the rent for social housing. euros.
"Understanding how difficult it is to start life without any support from family or relatives, or to find suitable housing for a disabled person, we have made a decision to provide significant support at market prices to those who need it most now - orphans, single disabled people who cannot afford to rent housing so easy With the allocated monetary support, it will be much easier for them to receive social housing," said Deputy Mayor Vytautas Mitalas.
The municipality-controlled company "Vilnius meisto HouseAccording to calculations, in 2020 300 EUR/month each. compensation for part of the rental fee will be paid to 18-year-old disabled persons who have the right to social housing out of sequence (and who have a 0-25 percent working capacity level) and 200 EUR/month each. For 93 lonely people from Vilnius, left without parental care, who are also waiting for social housing.
In order to help the most vulnerable social groups to find housing and rent it on the market, the Capital City Council today increased the number of recipients of compensation for part of the rent tax and added significant municipal support for rental housing to the paid compensation set by the LRV (92,42 EUR). It is expected that the compensation provided by the municipality will provide greater opportunities for the most vulnerable groups of Vilnius residents to feel dignified and to rent housing.