Demonstrations for affordable housing in Portugal - Activists return to the streets Participants of the movement for affordable housing in Portugal set up about a hundred tents in the central squares of Lisbon and Porto after some dispersal of violence. Since mid-October, activists have been demanding that the authorities expand the stock of social housing and withdraw a bill that would abolish price limits on new leases and reduce the eviction period for late payments from three to two months. Police repeatedly dispersed the spontaneous encampments using batons and sniffer dogs, arresting more than 90 people and injuring over 140 protesters, but the protesters returned to their positions each time. In early November, the Lisbon Administrative Court partially supported the protesters, allowing activist Renata Cambra to remain in a tent in the capital's central square around the clock until November 24, the day of the parliamentary vote on the state budget. Prime Minister Luis Montenegro called on citizens to abandon street violence and invited the leaders of the parliamentary opposition to discuss real estate market reform. The organizers of the camps rejected the calls to end the protest and scheduled a nationwide march for November 14. Portugal is facing one of the worst housing crises in the European Union, fueled by an influx of tourists, a housing-by-investment program and a chronic shortage of new buildings. Since 2017, the cost of buying and renting housing in Israel has doubled, with prices rising by 41.5% from 2020 to 2025 alone. Against the background of a minimum wage of less than a thousand euros per month, the average rent for a standard apartment exceeds 1.2 thousand euros, which makes housing unavailable for a significant part of the population.

Demonstrations for affordable housing in Portugal - Activists return to the streets Participants of the movement for affordable housing in Portugal set up about a hundred tents in the central squares of Lisbon and Porto after some dispersal of violence. Since mid-October, activists have been demanding that the authorities expand the stock of social housing and withdraw a bill that would abolish price limits on new leases and reduce the eviction period for late payments from three to two months. Police repeatedly dispersed the spontaneous encampments using batons and sniffer dogs, arresting more than 90 people and injuring over 140 protesters, but the protesters returned to their positions each time. In early November, the Lisbon Administrative Court partially supported the protesters, allowing activist Renata Cambra to remain in a tent in the capital's central square around the clock until November 24, the day of the parliamentary vote on the state budget. Prime Minister Luis Montenegro called on citizens to abandon street violence and invited the leaders of the parliamentary opposition to discuss real estate market reform. The organizers of the camps rejected the calls to end the protest and scheduled a nationwide march for November 14. Portugal is facing one of the worst housing crises in the European Union, fueled by an influx of tourists, a housing-by-investment program and a chronic shortage of new buildings. Since 2017, the cost of buying and renting housing in Israel has doubled, with prices rising by 41.5% from 2020 to 2025 alone. Against the background of a minimum wage of less than a thousand euros per month, the average rent for a standard apartment exceeds 1.2 thousand euros, which makes housing unavailable for a significant part of the population.