Portuguese protest in Berlin over housing and ask the Government to build it in Portugal, not abroad
The protesters demand affordable homes in Lisbon and admit that, until they return, the problem is being solved by emigration.
A group of Portuguese people demonstrated in Berlin, eighteen hundred kilometres from home, against the lack of housing in Portugal. The distance, they explained, was the solution the market had left them.
The organisers said the action was in solidarity with the struggle in Portugal, where the struggle continues for lack of somewhere to live.
An adviser who asked not to be identified insisted that the Government is following the situation closely and from a comfortable distance. According to the same source, every Portuguese person who protests in Berlin frees up a one-bedroom flat in Lisbon, which the executive describes as an ongoing housing policy.
A landlord in Alfama, approached outside a building with six short-term lets, said he understood the protesters and offered them a windowless room for when they come back, at 1,400 euros a month, bills not included.
The Assembleia pigeon, which has slept in parliament rent-free for years, declined to comment.
Every Portuguese person who protests in Berlin frees up a one-bedroom flat in Lisbon, which the Government describes as housing policy.
The reality behind the satire
Real news · observador.pt · 11 November
Manifestação em Berlim solidária com luta pela habitação em Portugal
This story, published by a real newspaper, inspired the piece above. The Falsumundi piece is made up; this story is not.
