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JORGE, Sílvia. More and better public housing: A look from Amadora and the former Santa Filomena neighbourhood. CIDADES [online]. 2022, vol.45, pp.1-16.  Epub 29-Dez-2022. ISSN 2182-3030.  https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.26591.

Despite the prominence of housing on the public agenda, the intervention approach generally proposed to tackle the growing difficulty of access to housing in Portugal is reductive. Far from the integrated and multi-sectoral reading recommended in the New Generation of Housing Policies, in particular the housing policies and land policies tend not to be read as sides of the same coin, preventing a more articulated, structured, and comprehensive intervention. At a time when major public investment in housing is expected in the coming years, under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (2021-2026), we analyse the responses aimed at the most vulnerable groups, first under the Programa Especial de Realojamento [Special Rehousing Programme] and currently under the 1.º Direito - Programa de Apoio ao Acesso à Habitação [1st Right - Support Programme for Access to Housing]. The analysis, supported by surveys and local reconnaissance, has as its backdrop the municipality of Amadora, integrated in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and which, along with a growing number of situations of housing shortage, is witnessing a strong dynamic in the private housing market. It focuses on the former Santa Filomena neighbourhood, of no legal occupation and construction, now considered extinct, whose land is expected to give rise to a major urban planning operation aimed at the free market. How can the urbanistic operations, associated to market dynamic, contribute to the increase of the public housing stock? This is the question we raise based on the articulation between housing policies and land policies and on the reading of the public responses found to supply housing shortages and precariousness.

Palavras-chave : access to housing; housing policy; land policy; Amadora.

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