Portugal has accumulated a deficit of 300,000 homes since 2014. Underdevelopment, high construction costs and difficulties with licenses made the market skewed. The rise in demand from tourism has onl

You can blame tourists or investors, but the problem is deeper. Tourism brings investment and jobs, but without housing, locals do not live in their cities. You cannot give up one for the other.

The OECD proposes to integrate territorial development strategies. Hotels can revive heritage, and new projects can create jobs where none exist. The main thing is planning: where to build houses, where to develop tourism and how to make them coexist.