Project Description

The primary aim of the project is the territorial identification of social vulnerability and substandard housing, studying the phenomenon and crisis of substandard housing in Portugal. Its purpose is to develop, test, apply and evaluate the potential of using a methodology to crossreference the social problems associated with substandard housing, the socio-demographic profiles and the social and territorial vulnerabilities.

The study is divided into six tasks. Task 1 analyses the different international and national references for the concept of substandard housing and its operationalisation in public housing policies.

Task 2 analyses the spatialisation of substandard housing and social contexts by building a

geographical information system and applying multivariate analysis methods to a set of statistical indicators at municipal and parish level.

Task 3 integrates and systematises information developed at the local level, namely information contained in local housing strategies, housing applications and other variables that cannot be assessed using traditional data sources.

Task 4 includes the presentation and discussion of the results of the developed methodology and the selection and development of case studies leading to its validation and possible improvement.

Task 5 focuses on analysing the organisational models of the municipalities and the conditions for information exchange.

Finally, Task 6 concerns the dissemination of the knowledge generated by the project.

Research Team

Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (CEGOT, FLUP): Teresa Sá Marques (coord.), Fátima Loureiro de Matos, Isabel Martins, Ana Catarina Maia, Diogo Ribeiro.

CITTA (FEUP): Paulo Conceição, Isabel Breda Vázquez.

Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto (IS-UP): João Queirós, Paula Guerra

Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (FAUP): Pedro Neto, Maria Neto

Financial Support

· FCT / PlanAPP: Science4Policy 2023 (S4P-23)

Stage of Progress

· In progress