place

Porto

City in Portugal

World · Portuguese housing protesters return after police clear Lisbon camp and Porto demonstrators dismantle tents

Hours after police cleared a protest camp in Lisbon and demonstrators in Porto dismantled their own tents on police orders, with 55 people arrested during the operations, thousands of demonstrators returned to central squares to renew their occupation against Portugal's intensifying housing crisis and a government bill that activists say will make evictions easier and end rent caps on new leases.