“You can’t live like this anymore”: There are also protests in Portugal against rising living costs and housing shortages

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“For years we have been exploited by rising property prices and the cost of living. We work ourselves to death and toil to make it to the end of the month on our salary, to keep up with rising fuel prices and basic expenses, and not to lose our apartment. All we are left with is debt and worry as the prospect of a better future fades.Coimbra is not left out! We call on everyone to gather at Praça da República next *Wednesday (14th) from 5:30 p.m. for a painting activity and to put up a banner and other materials.” portug.Call for the demo on October 10th the Instagram platform “Não dá mais para viver assim” (“You can’t live like this anymore”) and more about it:

• After protests on October 10th and 15th, the fights against the cost of living and for public infrastructure will come together on Saturday, October 17th
  • The demonstrations called by the CGTP began this morning in Porto, Coimbra and other cities. The rally in Lisbon is scheduled for this afternoon.
    “D. João I Square in Porto, scene of the recent demonstrations for affordable housing, was once again filled with people on Saturday morning, in a demonstration organized by the CGTP, where various demands were on the agenda, such as “Higher wages, better pensions and public services” or “Against the rise in the cost of living” and “A new course for Portugal”. In Coimbra, many citizens also took to the streets to protest, with the issue of housing also playing an important role, although new tent camps on this issue are planned in Lisbon and Porto.
    The wide-ranging themes explain why the demonstrations bring together young people, professionals and retirees.
    In Porto, several thousand people, including around 100 youth from the housing movement, were greeted with applause upon their arrival at Praça D. João I, where the march that began at Praça da Batalha culminated…” portuguese.Report by Rosa Soares from October 17, 2026 on publico.pt (machine translated)
  • Protests in Portugal over the housing situation: low wages and excessive rents
    “The protests in Porto are putting Portugal's housing crisis back in the spotlight: low wages, skyrocketing rents and prices rising 16.5% annually. A crisis is worsening in Portugal that is becoming increasingly difficult to hide: modest wages contrast with rents and property prices, which are rising rapidly. (…)
    The demonstrations that took place in Porto this week brought to the streets a feeling that has long existed in many Portuguese families. The demonstrators are demanding more affordable rents, more public housing, the reoccupancy of vacant apartments and protection against evictions.
    A tent camp set up in D. João I Square was eventually evacuated by police, further escalating tensions surrounding the issue. The protests are set to spread to Lisbon next Saturday, expanding a mobilization that is no longer just about prices per square meter. It's about wages, independence and the increasing difficulties of building an independent life…” portuguese.Article by Alessandro Elia on October 17, 2026 in El Folio online (machine translated)
  • On to the national demonstration | October 17th
    “On October 17th there will be a nationwide demonstration against the rising cost of living, for the preservation of the public health system (SNS) and for the preservation of social security, organized by the CGTP-IN - in Porto at 10:30 a.m. and in Lisbon at 2:30 p.m. The CGTP-IN organizes buses near your place of residence…” port.Call from October 14, 2026 by the CGTP-IN 
  • See the alliance platform on InstagramCall for protest camp in Lisbon, which has apparently already been dissolved (see above)
  • Protest in Porto against the planned rent reform
    “Postage. Thousands of people took to the streets in Porto on Thursday to protest against soaring property prices in Portugal. “Every month we are afraid of being thrown out of our apartment,” an activist told jW on Thursday evening. At Praça D. João I, around 3,000 people protested against the housing shortage and the planned rent reform of the center-right Aliança Democrática coalition that governs Lisbon. The protest camp, which had stood there since Saturday, had been forcibly evacuated by the police the night before. According to the movement, 39 people were injured. “When the television was gone, the police came,” reported a participant at the subsequent general meeting. The activists decided to stay the night. However, the organizers called it quits around 1:20 a.m. because there was a confrontation with a group that, according to reports, belonged to the right-wing scene. The movement doesn't want to give up and is calling on the square again this Saturday. A protest camp is also to be built in Lisbon.”Article by Nikolas Sisic in the young world from October 16, 2026 
• Portuguese people are protesting on the streets against the rising cost of living
  “The protests were organized by an Instagram platform called "You can't live like this anymore" and are inspired by similar demonstrations that have been repeated in Spain and were sparked by the eviction of the now deceased elderly woman Maricarmen Abascal.
  Thousands of people gathered this Saturday in Portugal's two largest cities, Lisbon and Porto, to protest against the rising cost of living and housing.
  The protests, which were also planned in Aveiro, Braga and Funchal, were organized by a platform called “You can’t live like this anymore”. The demonstrators chanted slogans about wages and held up placards with slogans such as “You can’t live on this wage.”
  Others held up posters with slogans like “I want to move out of my parents’ house before I turn 50.” (…)
  A post from an Instagram account promoting the demonstrations said people have been "crushing" for years by rising real estate prices and the cost of living.…” port.Report by Nathan Rennolds and Ricardo Figueira on 11/10/2026 from Euronews.com with video
• The “Não dá mais” platform is organizing nationwide protests over the housing crisis
  “The “You Can't Live Like This Anymore” movement, which includes around 40 civil society organizations, is preparing a series of protests this Saturday against the rising cost of living and the worsening housing crisis in Portugal. The demonstrations will take place in five cities.
  A demonstration against the housing crisis will take place this Saturday in five cities in Portugal, organized by a platform bringing together around 40 civil society organizations.
  “We work non-stop and toil to make it through the end of the month on our salaries, to cope with rising fuel prices and basic expenses, and to avoid losing our apartment,” the organizers wrote on their Instagram account.
  The rising cost of living and ever higher rents are making life unbearable for the Portuguese. “It is impossible to live in a country where rent takes up half of your salary and the other half is spent on essential goods,” the organization writes. (…)
  The alliance, which includes, among others, trade unions, associations for gender equality, for protection and the right to housing, for climate protection and for social inclusion, criticizes the way in which the government is responding to the housing crisis and calls for “stronger control of the prices of essential goods and fuels” and calls for “measures to address the housing crisis,” writes the newspaper “Correio da Manhã”..” port.Article by Manuel Ribeiro from 10/10/2026 from Euronews.com 
• Portugal: Thousands of people protest against rising living costs in Lisbon and Porto
  “On Saturday October 10, thousands of people took to the streets in Lisbon and Porto to protest against the rising cost of living, unaffordable housing and low wages. The demonstrations were organized by the platform “Não dá mais para viver assim” (We can't go on living like this), which also called for protests in Aveiro and Braga. In Lisbon, people of different ages gathered at Largo do Intendente to express their frustration over growing financial pressure on households. The square was already full shortly before the planned start of the demonstration; The protesters loudly drew attention to the difficulties of making ends meet. Organizers called for price controls on staple foods and fuel, taxes on windfall profits of large companies in the banking, energy and retail sectors, and measures to address the housing crisis. The platform brings together more than 30 organizations, including trade unions and groups that advocate for the right to housing, gender equality, ethnic equality, climate protection and social inclusion.”Report from October 13, 2026 on rf-news.de 
• Instagram platform “Não dá mais para viver assim” (“You can’t live like this anymore”):https://www.instagram.com/manif.janaodamais/

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