Hundreds take to streets in eight Portuguese towns and cities to demand right to housing
“Nobody can stand it, it’s a suffocation” Hundreds of people took to the streets in eight towns and cities across the country yesterday for the right to housing. The “Door
Algarve families unable to pay for affordable housing
High demand for homes by foreigners keeps driving prices up across the region. Foreign demand continues to drive up tourist investment in the Algarve as well as house prices. In
Government alters strategy over rentals price cap
Cap to return to ‘line of inflation’; support ‘only for those who need it’ The government is preparing a new strategy when it comes to ‘reducing rental increases’. According to
Portugal’s “Mais Habitação” package comes into force… tomorrow
Confusion still reigns over small print, particularly on Alojamento Local Portugal’s hugely contentious legislative package on housing, driven by the Socialist government and unsupported by every other party in parliament,
Thousands take to streets protesting against Portugal’s housing crisis
“A serious warning to the nation’s politicians” Thousands of angry, frustrated people took to the streets of over 20 towns and cities in Portugal yesterday over the dire situation of
Housing finance from Brussels? Where would it end, questions European Commissioner
Short shrift PM’s push for EU housing support Portugal’s European commissioner for cohesion policy and reform Elisa Ferreira has stressed how difficult it is, in the current context, to consider
Architects, engineers calls for national plan to fix housing crisis
Portugal’s associations of architects and engineers have said today there should be “a national plan” to fix the country’s housing crisis. Expressing their willingness to contribute to the design of
Portugal’s housing crisis just keeps on getting worse…
Since Portugal’s Socialist government presented its blueprint on ‘how to fix the country’s housing crisis’, the complex situation appears to have become increasingly worse: house prices have continued to increase;
Portuguese MEP quizzes Brussels on what it knows about PS Socialists’ ‘Venezuelan’ housing programme
Nuno Melo “wants to know if PM has deigned to inform Brussels” of his government’s plans Portuguese MEP Nuno Melo has become the latest Opposition politician to put the boot
Brussels “available to support EU member States in creating affordable housing”
But says it is up to individual States to assess their own situations A source for the European Commission has said today it is “available to support” EU member states