Several thousands of people took to the streets in Lisbon and other major cities across Portugal on Saturday to protest for the constitutional basic right to housing.

This is the second protest of the year that focuses on affordable housing, within a context of continuous increase of prices to rent and interest rates skyrocketing which has a big impact on most households due to mortgages.

In Lisbon, the impact of the climate crisis was also a common issue that some protesters wanted to highlight.

Portugal is facing in recent days high temperatures for the season, on Saturday thermometers reached at least 32 degrees Celsius in the capital.

Portugal is one of Western Europe’s poorest countries and has long pursued investment on the back of a low-wage economy.

Just over half of Portuguese workers earned less than 1,000 euros a month last year, according to Labour Ministry statistics.

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