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- Arrendamento privado em Portugal: uma leitura a partir da regulação das rendasPublication . Alves, Sónia; Ferreira, Pedro Moura; Botelho Azevedo, Alda
- Arrendamento urbano e envelhecimento em Portugal: tendências e perfisPublication . Botelho Azevedo, Alda; Ferreira, Pedro Moura; Alves, SóniaNo século XXI, a população residente em Portugal apresenta uma estrutura etária envelhecida e distribui-se no território assimetricamente, concentrando-se sobretudo nos grandes centros urbanos (Gomes et al. 2016, Ferreira & Azevedo 2017). De acordo com os dados do recenseamento de 2011, em Portugal, residem 2 010 064 indivíduos com 65 e mais anos, ou seja, 19% da população residente. Uma em cada seis casas cujos representantes do alojamento são seniores é ocupada em regime de arrendamento privado, um sector que, após meio século de congelamento de rendas e de contratos vinculistas, em 2012, iniciou o período de renegociação dos valores da renda, do tipo de contrato e respetiva duração.
- Urban Regeneration, Rent Regulation and the Private Rental Sector in Portugal: A Case Study on Inner-City Lisbon’s Social SustainabilityPublication . Alves, Sónia; Azevedo, Alda Botelho; Mendes, Luís; Silva, KatielleRent regulation has a significant impact on tenant–landlord relations and the overall functioning of the private rented sector. Different forms of rent regulation—in relation to rent levels, rent increases, security of tenure, etc.—also affect the quality, the social composition and, ultimately, the size of the private rented sector. Together they affect the character of much urban regeneration and renewal. The introduction in Portugal of more flexible rent regimes that aimed to gradually replace open-ended tenancies with freely negotiated contracts led researchers to classify the country as a free market system. In this paper, by using a mixed methods approach that combined desk-based research with census data and in-depth interviews, we test the) classification of Portugal’s rented sector as a free market against empirical evidence and examine the impacts of the main rent regulation regimes on social sustainability-oriented urban regeneration. Our results show that open-ended contracts, which were signed before the 1990s, still account for a significant part of the private rented sector, thus the classification of Portugal’s rent regulation regime as a free-market system does not capture the country’s most significant features. This is particularly evident in inner-city Lisbon, where various extreme rent regimes (in terms of contract duration, tenant security and prices) coexist, giving rise to tensions between housing quality and demographic shifts that threaten the overall social sustainability of the city.
- Estratégias de mix social no âmbito das políticas de habitação em PortugalPublication . Alves, Sónia; Botelho Azevedo, AldaEste artigo tem por objetivo contribuir para o debate sobre estratégias de mix social como forma de combater a segregação socio-espacial. Para esse efeito, discutem-se os propósitos e os instrumentos da aplicação do mix social em políticas de planeamento urbano, de habitação e de regeneração urbana, distinguindo-se as estratégias de mix social associadas a operações de demolição e de requalificação habitacional, das que são usadas em instrumentos de ordenamento do território para assegurar a mistura de regimes de ocupação e de tipos de habitação, acessíveis a famílias de diferente condição socioeconómica. Conclui-se que o contexto português se reveste de particularidades que têm vindo a limitar a aplicação do mix social, mas também de problemas, nomeadamente de desigualdade socioeconómica e espacial, que requerem a aplicação de modelos mais integrados e inclusivos, à semelhança do que tem vindo a ocorrer nos países da Europa do Norte (Dinamarca e Reino Unido).
- LisbonPublication . Canelas, Patricia; Alves, Sónia; Azevedo, Alda BotelhoOver the last 20 years, financialization of the housing market has become a topic of increasing public and political concern, especially in high-demand cities. It has also become an important element in academic discussion. The objective of the research was to undertake a comparative study across a range of countries with very different experiences to help understand how financialization is defined and experienced in different contexts and its relative importance as compared to other determinants of housing outcomes. Our research concentrates on 12 countries in North America, Western Europe, Australasia and parts of Asia, plus the city of Hong Kong. These countries were chosen to reflect a variety of relevant experience but also because each has a strong academic community analysing housing and urban systems and the development of financial markets. Within these countries, we identified cities where financialization of housing has been seen as particularly relevant. Hong Kong was included as an important Asian housing market.
- Lisbon (Portugal)Publication . Botelho Azevedo, Alda; Alves, Sónia