Brazil: the city of São Paulo has over 52,000 homeless people, an increase of 8.2% in 2023, says survey
Nationwide, 206,000 people were living on the streets, which shows an increase of 7.4% since the last survey.
The state of São Paulo concentrates 86,782 people of this population.
That is, almost half of the Brazilian homeless population lives in the cities of São Paulo.
The POLOS-UFMG coordinator explains that in the last quarter of 2022, the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) demanded measures to update the CadÚnico (unified registry), and the numbers stopped being updated.
On the other hand, the Lula (PT) government stimulated the registry again, and the numbers grew again (see below the homeless population in other capitals).
“We don’t know if more people started living on the streets after November.”
“We saw that last year, in just three months (October, November, and December), more than 25,000 people had been summarily excluded from the CadÚnico.”
“Now, they are slowly reappearing”, said André Luiz Dias.
The street situation affects mainly the black population in our country.
For every ten people living on the streets, seven are black.
X-RAY OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION
A survey carried out by the Brazilian Observatory of Public Policies for the Homeless Population (OBPopRua/POLOS-UFMG), based on data made available by the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger (reference month: February/2023), points out that Brazil has 206,044 homeless people registered in CadÚnico.
- São Paulo (capital): 52,226 homeless people / São Paulo State: 86,782 people
- Rio de Janeiro (capital): 12,752 people / Rio de Janeiro State: 18,812 people
- Belo Horizonte: 11,111 people / Minas Gerais: 21,857 people
- Salvador: 7,279 people / Bahia: 10,874 people
- Brasília: 7,129 people / Federal District: 7,129 people
HISTORICAL SERIES
Records of the homeless population in the CadÚnico in the country
- 2012: 12.775
- 2013: 22.922
- 2014: 37.419
- 2015: 52.440
- 2016: 73.874
- 2017: 101.302
- 2018: 138.332
- 2019: 174.766
- 2020: 194.824
- 2021: 158.057
- 2022: 191.896
- 2023 (February): 206,044 (+7.4% compared to November 2022)
Registration of homeless people in CadÚnico in the state of São Paulo
2012: 5.257
2013: 10.890
2014: 18.703
2015: 26.715
2016: 37.070
2017: 48.782
2018: 63.416
2019: 75.838
2020: 83.074
2021: 64.570
2022: 80.576
2023 (February): 86,782 (+7.7% compared to November 2022)
Registration of homeless people in CadÚnico in the city of SP
- 2012: 3.842
- 2013: 7.883
- 2014: 13.185
- 2015: 18.608
- 2016: 25.095
- 2017: 31.336
- 2018: 38.887
- 2019: 44.372
- 2020: 48.134
- 2021: 37.200
- 2022: 48.261
- 2023 (February): 52,226 (+8.2% compared to November 2022)
Source: POLOS-UFMG and MDS (Ministry of Social Development)
With information from g1
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