Rising House Prices Push Portugal to End Golden Visa Program

For years, Maria da Conceicao voiced concerns about the living conditions of the working-class immigrants who clustered in the buildings that line the narrow streets of Lisbon’s labyrinthine Moorish quarter.

But it took a fire earlier this month to make the outside world pay attention. As smoke filled the ground-floor studio apartment, firefighters burst in to find 22 immigrant workers, mostly from India, struggling to escape. Two people died and 14 were injured.

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