page_title: Roderick Galdes
section_title: Social Housing & Rent reform (2017-
hierarchical_section_title: Roderick Galdes / Social Housing & Rent reform (2017-
caption_attribution_description: English: Malta Parliamentary Secretary for Social Accomodation Roderick Galdes
context_page_description: Roderick Galdes is a Maltese politician elected in the Maltese Parliament, on behalf of the Labour Party, since 2004. He is currently a member of the Cabinet of Ministers serving as minister of social accommodation.
  He previously served as junior Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Animal Rights.
  He was first elected to Parliament in 2004, and re-elected in the 2008, 2013 and 2017 elections from the sixth district which comprises his hometown, Qormi, together with Luqa and Siggiewi.
context_section_description: Taking office as junior Minister for Social Housing, Galdes immediately launched a number of initiatives related to the sector. These included a rental scheme of private properties 'Nikru biex Nassistu', a regeneration scheme of vacant properties, the launching of an affordable loan scheme for low-income earners, and an anti-housing fraud freephone.
  An ongoing project is the building of 680 housing units, in 16 sites, earmarked for affordable accommodation.
  On 15 October 2018, Galdes published a detailed White Paper on rent reform, encouraging longer leases, regulating rental increases, without imposing any fixed prices. The proposed rent reform was lauded by Employers, a coalition of 20 Social NGOs, Caritas, Developers, Architects, Trade-Unions, and CEOs of Gaming companies among others. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the rent reform piloted by Roderick Galdes 'aimed to protect the most vulnerable while allowing the market to operate as freely as possible'.
caption: Malta Parliamentary Secretary for Social Accommodation Roderick Galdes
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