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Thousands have mobilised in Lisbon and Porto to protest escalating housing costs, establishing encampments in key public squares to demand the rehabilitation of vacant public buildings. Despite severe weather and police intervention, the popular assemblies continue to sustain the demonstrations, highlighting the deepening unaffordability crisis affecting youths and low-income earners.
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The parties today most committed to transforming the housing crisis into an indictment of the present had the opportunity to stop it in the past; instead, they gave up.
JN reveals data showing that rents have reached record values, with prices now exceeding €10 per square metre. Correio da Manhã highlights gaps in the Public Prosecutor's indictment regarding the case of the Luso-Brazilian twins.
The new scheme came into force on September 1st but remains unregulated, which is essential for its implementation.
The programme ensures maximum rent caps for housing, with an effort rate “never exceeding” 35%. Maximum values range from 400 to 1,125 euros, for T0 to T5 properties, respectively.
The unfreezing of old rents and easier eviction processes for non-payment in the rental market are measures “very important to restore confidence to landlords” and allow more properties to enter the housing market, argues the president of the Lisbon Landlords Association (ALP). According to Luís Menezes Leitão, frozen rents account for...
Where the pressure is at its peak, in Lisbon and Porto, where rent devours entire salaries and the tenant is the perfect portrait of the furious voter that theory imagined, no left-wing anger was born.
