A study carried out by Fundação João Pinheiro pointed to an increase in the total absolute housing deficit between 2016 – which was 5.657 million households – and 2019 – which reached 5.876 million households.
Irregular construction, overcrowding and risk of collapse are some characteristics of a house considered precarious.
In an interview with CNN Radio the research coordinator, Frederico Poley, evaluated that housing policies are linked to the local issue, but that the federal government and the state also have “an important role”.
“To think about the housing solution, you have to involve governments, but also civil society, with NGOs, partnerships, in relation to governments, working in an intersectoral way, with various secretariats and bodies”, he added.
According to Poley, “we cannot think that housing alone solves the problem, there is also the issue of work and this is a great challenge, to work in an integrated way”.
“The housing deficit is a complex problem, which requires solutions that are not simple”, he evaluated. He explains that a large part of the population has difficulty in accessing housing due to income or has access to informal job market without contracts and with high turnover.
For 2020, according to the researcher, the “expectation is for the numbers to get worse”, due to the pandemic .
“We have observed a difficulty for people to pay rent, having to go to the streets, families not only in São Paulo, but in the country as a whole, an increase in cohabitation, everything has added to the perspective of the deficit increasing”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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