The results obtained by the Survey on Living Conditions and Income for 2024 suggest an improvement in the physical conditions of housing, with the housing overcrowding rate decreasing to 11.2% and the severe housing deprivation rate decreasing to 4.9%. In both indicators, the greater housing weakness mainly affected families with dependent children and families at-risk-of-poverty. The Autonomous Regions had more unfavourable physical housing conditions, while Centro and Oeste e Vale do Tejo were the NUTS 2 regions with the best performance.

On the other hand, there was a worsening in the financial conditions associated with housing compared to 2023, both in terms of the median of the housing cost burden (which increased to 12.0%) and in terms of the housing cost overburden rate (which rose to 6.9%). The population at-risk-of-poverty faced greater difficulties at this level, with more than a quarter (25.9%) of the population at-risk-of-poverty in a condition of housing cost overburden.

The results for 2024 confirm that the housing conditions, mainly physical, but also financial, of households with dependent children are more unfavourable than those for other families.