The government has already delivered 10,000 homes to families under the PRR

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing announced this Monday that 10,000 homes have already been delivered to families as part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), which aims to deliver 1,200 this month, ensuring that 8,000 will be made available by December.

In a statement, the ministry reaffirmed that the target set under the RRP, to deliver 26,000 homes to families by June 2026, through the 1st Right — Housing Access Support Program, will be met. The 1,200 homes to be delivered in July are spread across the municipalities of Alcácer do Sal, Anadia, Lisbon, Moita, Tábua, Melgaço, and Funchal (Madeira) .

The 1st Right program was integrated into the PRR in 2021, with a target of 26,000 homes being delivered to families experiencing housing indignity by 2026. Delays in implementing the program and the insufficient number of homes to meet the housing needs identified led to its reformulation last year, at the initiative of the Government of Luis Montenegro, changing the number of projects and the sources of financing , to ensure that all applications had guaranteed funding.

It was in this context that the Prime Minister promised more than double the number of homes his predecessor had promised. The first 26,000 must be completed by 2026 and will continue to receive full non-refundable funding, totaling €2.174 billion (RRP and the State Budget). Another approximately 33,000 homes will be funded solely by the State Budget , with a budget of €2.011 billion and a deadline until 2030.

In a statement this month in Vila do Rei, the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, said that the Government was working so that, in September/October of this year, measures could be presented that address the conclusions of a study by the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU), which indicates that 250,000 houses are not on the sale or rental market.

In the note released this Monday, the Government explains that, to accelerate compliance with the PRR target and unblock applications for the program managed by IHRU, “Terms of Responsibility and Acceptance were implemented with the municipalities” .

In the statement, the Government emphasizes that the housing shortage is not limited to the 26,000 homes planned under the PRR, adding that around 59,000 applications were submitted to the 1st Right program, which will be completed by 2030.

The 1st Right — Housing Access Support Program — PRR aims to guarantee decent and adequate housing for the neediest families and the most vulnerable groups, providing for the provision of public housing, through new construction or rehabilitation of existing housing.

In total, the completion of 59,000 homes corresponds to a global investment of €4.2 billion in public housing, of which €2.8 billion will come from the State Budget and €1.4 billion from PRR funds.

The data was released as demolition operations are underway in at least two municipalities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Loures and Amadora), which are being contested by the Just Life Movement . In Loures, the operations are taking place on Talude Militar (68 homes) , and in Amadora, notices have been posted for the demolition of 16 homes on Estrada Militar (Mina de Água).