Mais Habitação
Portugal's 2023 housing package that tightened local-accommodation licensing.
Mais Habitação combined housing supply, tenant protection and rental-tax measures in Portugal's Law 56/2023, published on 6 October 2023.
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Mais Habitação is Portugal's housing programme associated with Law 56/2023, published on 6 October 2023. It combined support for affordable rental homes with tenant protections and tax measures. The package also encouraged transfers from local tourist accommodation, known as alojamento local, into residential letting. Its scope included housing cooperatives and protections for tenants with older rental contracts.
The programme changed the legal framework for local accommodation, which was revised again by Decree-Law 76/2024. That Reform took effect on 1 November 2024 and gave municipalities powers to regulate the activity locally. Under its condominium procedure, owners representing more than half a building's ownership value can request cancellation for proven, repeated disturbance. The mayor decides whether to cancel the registration. Ownership-weighted support and evidence of disturbance are conditions for that request, rather than a vote automatically closing the property.
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