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By the beginning of this month, the municipalities of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML) had delivered approximately 8,500 housing units, mostly rehabilitated, representing one third of the total planned under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), which is being implemented until the end of August.
Wealthier municipalities concentrate the majority of homes financed by the 1st Right, while interior regions, with high percentages of vacant homes and population loss, are neglected.
The 2% of public housing contrasts with the European average and is a result of decades of government investment in home purchase support. Between 2011 and 2024, only 1,586 public housing units were built.
The municipal council of Loulé has formally acquired 60 housing units for public rental in a €15.1 million investment backed largely by national recovery funds. The public deed was signed The post Loulé buys 60 homes for public housing in €15.1 million deal appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Update: Public deed signed and financing confirmed
The public deed has been signed, formalising the €15.1 million purchase, with the cost largely covered by national recovery funds to secure 60 units for public rental in Loulé.
“The city has been experiencing a dramatic housing situation for a long time,” states the document signed by João Ferreira.
The government aims to utilise vacant public properties to address the housing crisis, but there is no official and complete inventory of the state's real estate assets.
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.
Half of the CEOs of construction companies who responded to the 2025 Construction Industry Barometer ‘clearly disagree with public housing policies’, according to the survey created by Fundação Mestre Casais in partnership with AICCOPN. The PSP and the GNR carried out four times as many enforcement actions targeting immigrants last year compared with ...
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.
The Development Bank will help municipal councils build 23,170 homes with an investment of €2.67 billion, Gonçalo Regalado, the chief executive of the Development Bank, told ECO. These were the applications already submitted for the support that will be granted under local housing strategies, one of the measures that the ...
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.
The new president of IHRU painted a stark picture of the weaknesses of the institute that manages a crucial part of public housing. But what do these responses reveal about the real state of housing policy in Portugal? Listen to the latest episode of Economia dia a dia, the daily podcast from Expresso.
