Since 2019 the law has required a yearly report to Parliament on the state of housing. The first, covering 2024, was due by June 2025. The ministry says it is finished but gives no date for sending it, and gives no update on the 2025 report.
Variable-rate home loans reviewed in November are repriced on October's Euribor averages. On our arithmetic, a 150,000 euro, 30-year loan pays about 89 euros more a month on the 12-month index, 44 on six months and 18 on three months.
From 1 November the Santa Casa da Misericórdia runs São João da Madeira's hospital for the SNS: referred consultations in 15 specialties, a basic emergency service and day surgery, for 13.85 million euros a year over 10 years. Doctors' union says the benefits are unproven.
The PSP broke up the housing protest camps in Lisbon's Rossio and Porto's Praça D. João I at about 04:30 on Sunday, the third removal since 20 October. Organisers count at least 10 detained in Lisbon and 38 injured in Porto; police figures are still awaited.
The sirens are a commemoration, not an alert. The Recordar 1755 campaign uses the anniversary to urge preparedness, with purple monuments, school bells, Sintra's drill activities on 5 November and ANEPC's advice.
Amadora has handed over the keys to 48 PRR-funded flats at Cerrado da Mira, its first let at reduced rents set so that no household spends more than 35 percent of its income on rent. Contracts run five years.
INE data show 247,600 homes licensed in seven years and 159,465 completed. Much of the gap is homes still being built, as licences have more than tripled since 2016, but builders also cite labour, financing and stalled projects.
