Liberalism or community participation : two approaches to facing the housing problem

Authors

  • Paulo V. Dias Correia
  • Fernando Nunes da Silva

Abstract

The effect of the present economic crisis on Portugal and especially upon its building sector is here set out in the light of clarifying statistics, these demonstrating. among other things, that in the latter, present-day real wages are lower than they were 1973. At this moment Portugese Housing offers the following phenomena: 36,700 slum shacks, 195,000 families sharing a roof with others, 184,000 houses with neither running water or sewers and 164,000 houses in a ruinous state. The authors see the root causes of this state of affairs as being threefold: overcrowding in Lisbon and Oporto, the total lack of any housing policy whatsoever and the administration total incapacity for handling this problem. This state of affairs is shown to have given rise to a multitude of illegal development schemes. As of late, it would seem that the Government has at last woken up to seriousness of the this threat and to meet the problem has pushed through the present Ground Control Law. This envisages two novelties: a building subsidy system and Municipal Land Banks.

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Published

1988-06-30

How to Cite

Dias Correia, P. V., & Nunes da Silva, F. (1988). Liberalism or community participation : two approaches to facing the housing problem. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (76), 27–38. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/82698

Issue

Ciudad y Territorio. Ciencia Urbana. Núm. 76 (1988)

Section

Articulos

License

Copyright (c) 1988 Paulo V. Dias Correia, Fernando Nunes da Silva

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