"How Cavaco, Costa and Cristas shaped the law on rents until we got to Mais Habitação" (with Regina Santos Pereira)

Following this law, many news reports at the time revealed cases of tenants who had received letters and had not responded within 30 days. Regina Santos Pereira, a Partner at SRS Legal, recalls to Observador that, with regard to these issues, in 2014 the law was changed again to reinforce what was necessary.
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Regina Santos Pereira recalls that, although there may have been elderly tenants who didn't respond in time, there are no figures that attest to the impact that the 2012 law had on this section of the population. "What I can share from my experience is that the situation of the people who received the letters and didn't respond isn't clear, we don't know how many there were, nor do we know the universe."
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Apart from these exceptions, the move to the NRAU was expected to take place in stages. The best way to explain the process is, according to Regina Santos Pereira, to separate the path between the rent and the contract. Thus:

•     if a tenant had an income of up to 2,900 euros per month and was 65 years old, the rent would be set based on income and the contract would not end;
•     if a tenant had a low income but was not 65, there was the possibility of ending the contract after five years (plus two);
•     if they were not economically deprived but were 65, the rent could go up, but the contract would not end.