Emergency housing fund to support tenants with un-frozen rents
The government has established an Emergency Housing Fund (Fundo de Emergência Habitacional or FEH) to support families facing housing vulnerability. The fund is available to tenants at risk of losing their homes due to the transition of pre-1990 rental contracts to the New Urban Lease Regime (Novo Regime do Arrendamento Urbano or NRAU).
The NRAU is the Novo Regime do Arrendamento Urbano (New Urban Lease Regime), the legal regime that reformed Portugal's urban rental law and governs most residential leases. A ten‑year moratorium on applying some of its rules to older contracts has expired, which has allowed landlords to pursue repossession cases such as the order for Casa Pereira da Conceição to vacate.
