Only a few thousand golden visas are issued every year. This is performative. Portugal does have a housing crisis. The golden visa allows buying residential re

Only a few thousand golden visas are issued every year. This is performative. Portugal does have a housing crisis. The golden visa allows buying residential real estate as a qualifying “investment”. The government could simply end that part. Or even require building new affordable housing units. Historic cities like Lisbon don’t lend themselves to new units easily, which is an issue. Airbnb OTOH is cancer to housing markets and pretty much every government should kill it.