Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339566 
Year of Publication: 
2026
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[Editor:] Alves, Sónia [Editor:] Andersen, Hans Thor [Editor:] Keunen, Els [Editor:] Vuksanović-Macura, Zlata [Title:] Social housing opportunities and challenges: Perspectives from Denmark, Germany, Portugal and Serbia [ISBN:] 978-3-88838-449-3 [Series:] Arbeitsberichte der ARL [No.:] 40 [Publisher:] Verlag der ARL - Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft [Place:] Hannover [Year:] 2026 [Pages:] 49-74
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Verlag der ARL - Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Hannover
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.
Subjects: 
Housing policy
social and affordable housing
sociospatial inequality
affordability crisis
Portugal
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