Without Money for Rent, Families Create New Favelas in SP

[Judi Lynn]

It was the place that people could build their shacks, says community leader

May.3.2021 2:00PM

Lucas Veloso

Karine Alcântara Silveira, 41 and a stay at home mother, has lived with her son Fernando, 15, since December in a canvas tent in the Penha Brasil favela. The housing occupation arose that same month in Vila Dionísia, district of Cachoeirinha, in the north of São Paulo.

Before that, the money Karine received from the City of São Paulo paid the rent on a house, but the aid was interrupted. Affected by the pandemic with the loss of income and unable to pay rent, residents had to look for a place in a favela or join a group to occupy idle land in the cities.

Estimates from the Observatório das Remoções point to at least five new squatter communities that have emerged in the metropolitan region during the pandemic with these characteristics.

In these new communities, people gather in small rooms, built with pieces of wood collected from the garbage or in shops, in addition to cardboard and other materials used to demarcate each one's home. Water and electricity services do not usually serve these locations. For this, they count on the help of neighbors and family.

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1. They should do this for the homeless in the US

Set aside land in cities with a major homeless problem and let the favelas form. Nothing else seems to be working.