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The right to adequate housing, enshrined in Article 65 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, is inseparable from the right to life and is the basis for other human rights. However, in recent years, this right has been jeopardised by the increasing transformation of housing into a financial investment. In other words, housing is being conceived as a means to high profitability through short-term rental or sale.

The research project HOU$ING - Financialised housing in 21st century Portugal: Social representations, practices, and political stakes, funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (EXPL/PSI-GER/0269/2021), aims to study the relationship between the rise of financial markets, actors and motivations - in other words, financialization - and access to housing, focusing on the analysis of social representations and practices associated with housing in major Portuguese cities, Lisbon and Porto.

This mid-term seminar of the project is organized around two main objectives:

1 - To present the preliminary results and main conclusions.
2 - To promote an open discussion around the interrelations between crisis(es) and housing, and the impacts of different discriminations at psychological, social and political levels.

The seminar is aimed at students, researchers and professionals, but is also open to the general community interested in these issues. Registration is free but compulsory. 

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This activity will be accessible through the Zoom platform. Registration is free but compulsory and will be limited to number of available places:

We appreciate that all participants keep the microphone muted until the moment(s) of debate. The host of the session reserves the right to expel the participant who does not respect the rules of the room.

Online open access activities such as this one do not grant a declaration of participation since such document will only be provided in events that provide for prior registration and controlled access.