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In low-wage Portugal, Europe’s housing crisis bites deep
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A woman cries after her makeshift house was demolished by municipal workers in Loures, outside Lisbon, Monday, March 6, 2023. Seven families, mostly immigrants from Sao Tome & Principe, were evicted and had their illegal houses demolished. They had built their houses in the last couple of years when unable to pay the rising rents being asked coupled with the increasing cost of living. - photo by AP Photo/Armando Franca
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Like a growing number of people in Portugal, Georgina Simoes no longer earns enough money to afford a place to live. The 57-year-old nursing home carer earns less than 800 euros ($845) a month, as do about a fourth of the country's workforce. For the last decade, she got by because she’s been paying just 300 euros a month for her one-bedroom apartment in an undistinguished Lisbon neighborhood.