{"id":1140,"date":"2025-12-23T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:04:42","slug":"pessoas-em-situacao-de-rua-triplicam-em-portugal-em-menos-de-10-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/pessoas-em-situacao-de-rua-triplicam-em-portugal-em-menos-de-10-anos\/","title":{"rendered":"Homelessness triples in Portugal in less than 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 Between 2016 and 2024, the number of homeless people in Portugal rose from 4,006 to 14,476, an increase of 260%. This contradicts the presidential promise to eradicate homelessness by 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> The growth reveals the mismatch between social policies and the housing crisis. It also indicates that symbolic actions are no substitute for structural solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udde0 <strong>What's happening:<\/strong><br>Despite national coordination initiatives, the number of homeless people continues to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Part of the increase stems from improvements in identification and official registration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>Between the lines:<\/strong><br>Experts recognise institutional advances, but admit that they haven't kept up with the pressure of the property market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The housing crisis appears to be the dominant factor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udfc3 <strong>To summarise:<\/strong><br>The most common profile is Portuguese men aged between 44 and 65, with low levels of education and dependence on social benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Women are fewer in number and generally younger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f <strong>The big picture:<\/strong><br>Portugal has improved its diagnostic capacity, but has failed to contain the expansion of the problem without tackling access to housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcad <strong>Our opinion:<\/strong> Without robust housing policies, the problem is likely to continue to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publico.pt\/2025\/12\/21\/sociedade\/noticia\/semabrigo-registados-aumentaram-260-nove-anos-marcelo-ajudou-foco-solucoes-2158775#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">P\u00fablico.pt<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal has tripled its homeless population in less than a decade. The housing crisis exposes the limits of public policies and official targets.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radar-poprua","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidaritas.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}