00:01Thousands of people gathered in Lisbon and Porto on Saturday to protest rising living costs and housing prices.
00:09Protesters also took to the streets in other cities, including Aveiro, Braga and Funchal.
00:15They're marching under the slogan, we can't live like this anymore, chanting about wages in the worsening housing crisis.
00:22The ordinances are not able to follow the high cost of living costs that are more and more required in
00:28our country.
00:29The housing has been more and more a problem in Portugal, mainly affects the young people.
00:35Some demonstrators say they have taken inspiration from similar housing crisis protests in Spain,
00:41where the 87-year-old Mari Carmen Abascal sparked nationwide protests.
00:45Her plight brought hundreds of thousands onto the street and ultimately brought forward a general election after mass demonstrations.
00:54Portugal remains one of Europe's least affordable housing markets.
00:58Over the past 10 years, Portuguese house prices have risen by almost 240 percent.
