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The city of Portugal has distributed 105 keys to citizens as part of a strategic public housing recovery plan aimed at addressing affordability challenges.
As Portugal's PRR programme reaches its final phase, many of the 1.º Direito homes remain untransferred and several architects involved in public procurement are publicly questioning the projects' costs, delivery timescales and construction quality. Concerns focus on cost inflation, contractual timelines slipping, inconsistent build standards and weaknesses in procurement oversight, raising risks for occupants and the housing market; architects urge tighter quality assurance, clearer accountability and revised procurement practices to protect beneficiaries and public investment.
Several residents have health problems and the elevator broke down three months ago.
The issue affects dozens of residents in the seven-story building in Lisbon, including other elderly people and individuals with mobility problems.
PS unveils a package of urgent measures to tackle the housing shortage in Lisbon
The party calls for the transfer of land to the municipality in private urban development projects to enable the development of public housing.
In Lisbon, the Socialist Party (PS) is proposing measures to oblige property developers to reserve space in new projects for public housing, aiming to increase the availability of affordable homes.
