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The Marinha Grande City Council revealed today that it has re-housed 75 people in the facilities of Sport Império Marinhense after they were transferred from the Municipal Stadium.
An IGF audit of the Institute of Financial Management’s property portfolio finds that Social Security is holding 854 empty homes while Portugal faces an unprecedented housing crisis. The report criticises inefficient asset management, poor utilisation and weak oversight of the Social Security housing stock, creating lost opportunities to relieve market pressure. The findings point to a need for clearer inventory, faster reallocation or disposal procedures, and greater transparency and coordination between agencies to convert idle public housing into usable supply.
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.
Eight years after its launch, Portugal’s PRR-funded 1.º Direito programme has delivered 16,950 of the planned 26,000 homes. The vast majority were achieved through rehabilitation projects; only 1,568 units are newly built, underscoring a shortfall in new construction and a continued reliance on refurbishment to meet social-housing objectives.
The Municipal Social Housing Observatory of Porto reports that 28,180 residents live in the city's public housing stock, spread across 12,409 dwellings, and that the average rent is €77.06.
The CNIS and the União das Misericórdias say this and are awaiting the Government's response to proposals they sent calling for the immediate opening of 'more than 400 places'. They say the announcement was 'premature'.
Children and teenagers in wheelchairs live in flats without lifts and must descend hundreds of steps to get onto the street. In the programme “A Prova dos Factos” we revealed the case of a boy with cerebral palsy who lives on the third floor with no lift. After the report aired, Sintra Town Hall decided to give this family a new home.
Home News Rental support in the Algarve Rental support in the Algarve The municipality of Portimão supports 545 families with their rent, investing a total of €1. 9 million.
The candidate spoke to journalists on the sidelines of a campaign event in the streets of Beja, the 16th district he has toured in recent weeks as a presidential candidate.
