The President of the Republic, António José Seguro, met today with specialists in housing in the Palace of Belém, including academics, tenant associations and representatives of the construction sector.
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28/10/2026
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O President of the Republic today received specialists related to the housing sector in the Palace of Belém, including academics, tenant associations and owners and representatives of the construction sector and public works.
The head of state, António José Seguro, made an appeal on Tuesday to seek solutions urgently for housing, through dialogue, without resorting to violence, and announced that he would meet today with experts in this area.
According to a note published this afternoon on the official website of the Presidency of the Republic on the Internet, “President António José Seguro met at the Palace of Belém with a set of entities and experts related to the housing sector.”.
They were in the Palace of Belém “academics, tenants and owners associations, representatives of the construction sector and public works, promoters and real estate investors, as well as professional orders from the area, public housing associations and representatives of the local government”, reads the note.
On Tuesday, following police charges on protesters for the right to housing, António José Seguro made a statement to journalists and answered questions on this subject, stating that he did not like what he saw, but that he awaits the results of the police investigations.
“Portuguese culture is a culture of dialogue. It is not a culture of violence, nor is it a culture of confrontation. I did not like what I saw in recent images, particularly in Lisbon last Saturday”, at the end of a visit to the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon.
“ I did not like what I saw, as I am convinced, most of the Portuguese, because they are not normal images for a consolidated democracy ", considered the head of state.
The President of the Republic stressed the situation of Portuguese youth, who described it as “a blocked generation”, and argued that it is urgent to solve the problems of access to housing by ensuring the purchase of houses or the lease for “all scholarships”.
António José Seguro called for “dialogue as a solution to problems and never violence” and urged Government and parties in Parliament to work together to find solutions.