The Municipality of Loulé delivered, this Thursday, the keys to 18 rehabilitated dwellings in Frederico Ulrich Municipal Neighborhood, formerly the Workers' Neighborhood, completing the first phase of an intervention funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan. The houses, with T2 and T3 typologies, underwent works for expansion and reorganization of interior spaces, as well as the requalification of the respective yards, with the objective of guaranteeing new and modern habitability conditions for the families.
The neighborhood was built between 1948 and 1950 by engineer Alberto da Silveira Ramos and architect Manuel Maria Laginha, constituting the first social housing initiative in Loulé aimed at families with few resources. The mayor of Loulé, Telmo Pinto, stated that the intervention returns life to a project that, more than seven decades ago, placed the dignity of families at the center of the city's design.
A second phase of rehabilitation is planned, covering 30 more dwellings. During the works, residents will be temporarily re-housed in apartments in the city and in some of the houses recovered in the first phase. The council also plans to proceed with an additional 600 units as early as next year.
Since the launch of the Local Housing Strategy in 2019, when the municipal housing stock had 280 units, the municipality claims to have exceeded 490 houses, representing an increase of more than 70% in just over seven years. Currently, more than 500 new dwellings are under development through land acquisition and purchase and construction projects at different locations in the municipality.
