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The woman is tenth on the social housing list, but as recently as the 10th, during her last meeting with Social Security, she was told she must continue looking for a home.
The EIB package will have a “strong emphasis on adapting existing buildings so that it is possible to make these social housing units available across the country as quickly as possible,” says the official.
The President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) expects the reinforcement to be approved in March so that these social housing units can be made available across the country as quickly as possible.
The European Investment Bank will provide an additional 1.5 billion euros to support the supply of social housing, the president of the EIB Group announced this Thursday. Nadia Calviño revealed, at the press conference presenting results in Portugal, that she expects to have a 'green light soon' from the board of directors later this month, which...
The article reports that the Câmara de Tondela in Portugal plans to requalify and improve housing conditions for families in need, demonstrating local efforts to address social housing issues. Additionally, the webpage highlights various local events and sports updates in the Viseu region, including football matches involving Tondela and Académico de Viseu, as well as community initiatives like a solidarity walk organized by students to support volunteer firefighters.
The decision was made at the meeting of the Regional Government Council.
Home News IHRU affordable rental homes IHRU affordable rental homes The Portuguese Housing and Urban Rehabilitation Institute (IHRU) has opened applications for a lottery of 39 affordable rental homes in the municipalities of Almada, Amadora, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon, Porto, and Vila Nova de Gaia
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.
In addition to vacant units, Social Security is owed more than €33 million in unpaid rent on properties owned by public bodies and on homes assigned to the market-rent and social-rent schemes.
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'.
A new governance model for social housing is needed, one that breaks away from the vicious social, financial and damaging management cycle. Opinion column by Miguel Almeida Cardoso.
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.
