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The Portuguese report

In: Social housing opportunities and challenges: Perspectives from Denmark, Germany, Portugal and Serbia

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  • Alves, Sónia
  • Azevedo, Alda Botelho
  • Allegra, Marco
  • Leite, Filipa
  • Calor, Inês
  • Ferreira, Pedro Moura

Abstract

This chapter examines how Portugal's housing policy has evolved over recent decades and how this trajectory has shaped the current housing crisis. It explores how core policy concepts - such as social and affordable housing - have been defined and implemented, revealing the logic and limits of the Portuguese housing regime in delivering safe, non-profit housing. By tracing shifts between state intervention and market liberalisation, it shows how policy has remained fragmented and reactive, resulting in a residual, underfunded public sector concentrated in metropolitan areas. Using national data and a case study of Braga, the chapter illustrates persistent structural problems, with a small, ageing social housing stock and mounting affordability pressures. It situates Portugal's experience within wider European trends of financialisation, territorial inequality, and the erosion of housing as a social right.

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  • Alves, Sónia & Azevedo, Alda Botelho & Allegra, Marco & Leite, Filipa & Calor, Inês & Ferreira, Pedro Moura, 2026. "The Portuguese report," Arbeitsberichte der ARL: Aufsätze, in: Alves, Sónia & Andersen, Hans Thor & Keunen, Els & Vuksanović-Macura, Zlata (ed.), Social housing opportunities and challenges: Perspectives from Denmark, Germany, Portugal and Serbia, volume 40, pages 49-74, ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:arlaba:339566
    DOI: 10.60683/kd9j-fn22
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