Policy of reception

The municipal housing stock consists of 2052 houses over three main districts of rehousing and other cores of rehousing dispersed with a large number of residents of the same ethnic background. Two of the three main districts are mainly composed of communities with the same ethnic background (Cabo- Verde). There are, also, several cores (five), identified below, of provisional masonry houses, even by resettling, composed of communities with the same ethnic background:

• Neighbourhood 6 de Maio
• Neighbourhood Estrela de África
• Neighbourhood Estrada Militar do Alto da Damaia
• Neighbourhood Santa Filomena
• Neighbourhood Encosta Nascente

Run in the city several projects for the integration of the resident population in the districts of which highlights the Project Oportunidade/Geração11 whose target is the population descended from the 2nd and 3rd generation of immigrants and being developed in the Casal da Boba neighbourhood, recognized as a good practice in 2008.

The Project Oportunidade/Geração was awarded by Prize of Distinction for Best Practices in municipal area of immigrant integration granted by the Platform on Policies for Reception and Integration of Immigrants in the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Zambujal Melhora Programme with the creation of "facilitators neighbourhood" which is the joining of two people with different ethnic backgrounds receiving training at the same time in a certain area and then working together in their own neighbourhood, and in other districts.