Porta de Entrada urgent housing: is it open, who can apply?

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Porta de Entrada helps people who lose their home or are about to lose it after an unforeseeable or exceptional event, if they have no suitable alternative and no immediate money. The portal page shows no dates.

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Status on 5 November 2026

No dates shown on the programme page

Who can be helped

A person or household in urgent need of lodging, without an adequate housing alternative, and without immediate financial means (movable assets below the legal limit)

How it works

IHRU signs a cooperation protocol with the municipality, which collects the cases and proposes lodging solutions; the Autonomous Regions can join or replace the municipality

Run by

IHRU, I.P.

Official page

portaldahabitacao.pt/web/guest/porta-de-entrada

Sources

portaldahabitacao.pt/web/guest/porta-de-entrada
portaldahabitacao.pt/web/guest/beneficiarios-portadeentrada
portaldahabitacao.pt/web/guest/como-se-candidatar-portade...

Checked

2026-11-05