
Portugal shares the Iberian Peninsula with Spain, which is currently in the affordable housing news for its ‘Right to Housing’ law. Spain’s new law includes regulatory solutions for renters, including rent controls1.
Portugal, facing similar affordable housing problems2, is also supporting a localized approach to affordable housing initiatives. Portugal’s second-largest city, Porto, has an eight point program. The aim of these initiatives is to attract private capital that officials say will help dig the city out of its growing affordable housing crisis.
For more on Porto’s new collection of affordable housing initiatives, read more in TheMAYOR.eu: Porto has 8 plans in store to lower rents
Meanwhile, Portugal’s largest city, Lisbon, has schemes of its own. See also in TheMAYOR.eu: Lisbon wants to fix housing shortage by becoming a major landlord
Footnotes
- Try: Spain’s Right To Housing Law: Freedom From Housing Price Extortion. Or. . .Not!
- One shared example is negative impact of tourism, in spite of its contribution to the economies of both countries. Here’s a story in The Mayor.eu of an attempt to curb the impact of tourism in Spain: Toledo: the latest European city to limit tourism accommodation. For similar concerns in Portugal, try Wealthy Incomers: Economy Boosters? Or Trojan Horses Bent On Plunder?