“Housing to Live” movement takes demands to Belém and asks the President to treat housing as a “national emergency”

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“Housing to Live” movement takes demands to Belém and asks the President to treat housing as a “national emergency”

The platform will deliver an open letter in Belém demanding structural measures, such as rent regulation and longer contracts, warning that accelerating evictions will “worsen an already brutal crisis” for thousands of families.

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Belém is the presidential palace (Palácio de Belém), the official residence and workplace of Portugal's president; it has served as the presidential seat since 1911 and sits in the Belém district of Lisbon near the Tagus River. The incoming president will be sworn in there on 9 March, and those in Lisbon may see public events or media coverage around the palace during the inauguration.

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