Tens of thousands march in Lisbon over housing and living costs
Tens of thousands marched as housing prices have more than doubled since 2017, putting pressure on the centre-right government.
- Tens of thousands of people marched through central Lisbon on Saturday to protest soaring living costs and a deepening housing crisis, as the CGTP-led rally increased pressure on Portugal's centre-right government.
- House prices and rents have more than doubled since 2017, fueling one of Europe's worst housing affordability crises, while inflation hit 3.6% in September driven by rising food and fuel prices.
- PhD student Carolina Cruz faces losing her home as rent renewal could push costs above €1,200 monthly, while teacher Pedro Penilo said Portugal's leaders were "out of touch with reality."
- Parliamentary Affairs Minister Carlos Abreu Amorim said on Friday the "government will not yield to shouts from the street," while stating concrete measures to address concerns are already being rolled out.
- Rising unrest preceded Saturday's march, including a housing activist camp in Porto that police cleared in a pre-dawn operation on Monday, while similar protests against costs have emerged in France, Belgium, and Albania.
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Tens of thousands of people are demonstrating in Lisbon against high cost of living and exploding rents. Since 2017, real estate prices in Portugal have more than doubled and the government has already taken action.
In the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, a protest camp against the housing crisis was set up - as already in the Spanish capital, Madrid. After a demonstration on Saturday evening hundreds of protesters gathered on Rossio Square in the heart of Lisbon and set up dozens of tents, as journalists of the news agency AFP reported. The demonstrator Elena Costa said that the people who pay taxes in Portugal and keep the country running would "lose their rig…
Protesters say low wages have not kept pace with housing costs. People also demonstrated in Porto and Coimbra.
Portugal Cost-of-Living Protests Put Housing Crisis in Spotlight
Independent Journalism and Public Interest Reporting. Housing affordability, rising rents and mortgage pressures are among the concerns driving demonstrations in Portugal, as trade unions demand higher wages, better pensions and stronger public services. Housing costs are taking centre stage in a series of cost-of-living demonstrations in Portugal, where trade unions and housing campaigners are calling for measures to ease the financial [...] Th…
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