>>60493330 (OP)
Migrants contribute to existing housing problems but they are not the main cause nor do they particularly contribute any more than natural born citizens or long-term foreign born residents.
It's more accurate to blame housing developers for not meeting housing demands for decades, most governments for ignoring investments into public housing, speculators seating on their asses because selling their property for a couple million is their retirement fund, zoning laws, HOAs, retarded building codes, councils vetoing new developments, improperly drafted laws preventing urban sprawl, cars NEEDING to have all the fancy electronics with none of the reliability, emigrants leaving properties abandoned but technically still owned, etc.
Portugal's Golden Visa program used to allows migrants to gain residency by buying a property worth 500K. However there's only been 20K Golden Visas ever issued and buying property isn't the only way (nor the cheapest way) to gain residency. The impact these 20K people had since 2017 is much lower than you'd think compared to the other thousands that immigrate to Portugal every year or the 90% natural born population. Despite this a lot of people blame the Golden Visas and migrants despite the fact that the country has had housing shortages for decades precisely because neither the government nor private contractors have been keeping up with demand. The country was especially hit by the 2008 financial crisis and during the recovery years barely anything got built. Countries like Austria or the Netherlands have 25% to 29% of all housing being public, meanwhile Portugal has only 2%. There's also a huge problem with emigrants leaving properties behind since the 1980s, thus there's a ton of rundown housing available in desirable areas which is not being used for anything in most cities. The systemic problems that Portugal has are not due to immigrants; citizens have voted/governed for homelessness for years while incentivizing migration.
