The complaint was registered on 23 April 2010. The complainant organisation pleads a violation of Articles 16 (the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection), 30 (right to protection against poverty and social exclusion) and 31 (right to housing), read alone or in conjunction with Article E (non discrimination) of the Revised Charter. The ERRC maintains that the sum of housing-related injustices in Portugal (including problems of access to social housing, substandard quality of housing, lack of access to basic utilities, residential segregation of Romani communities and other systemic violations of the right to housing) violates these provisions.

• Case document no. 1, Complaint registered at the Secretariat on 23 April 2010  
• Case document no. 2, Observations of the Government on the admissibility
• Case document no. 3, Written submissions of the Government on the merits
• Case document no. 4, Response by ERRC to the written submissions of the Government on the merits

The European Committee of Social Rights declared the complaint admissible on 17 September 2010.

The European Committee of Social Rights concluded that there was a violation of Articles 16, 30 and 31§1, read alone or in conjunction with Article E, of the Revised Charter and transmitted its report containing its  decision on the merits of the complaint to the Parties and to the Committee of Ministers on  1 July 2011.

The Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/ResChS(2013)7 on 10 April 2013.
 

 Decision on admissibility of the Complaint 61/2010

 Decision on the merits of the Complaint 61/2010

 Resolution ResChS(2013)7 of the Committee of Ministers on 10 April 2013

 Findings of the European Committee of Social Rights on the follow-up of the Complaint