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As condições de vida e de trabalho da população em situação de rua do Centro Histórico de Salvador, Bahia

2014; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA MARIA; Volume: 15; Issue: 106 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5007/1984-8951.2014v15n106p161

1984-8951

Renata Meira Véras, Gezilda Borges de Souza, Brian Teles Fonseca De Macêdo, Daisy Kitaoka Guerra,

Urban Development and Societal Issues

There are about four thousand homeless people in Salvador, most of them living in the streets in extreme poverty. Through a quantitative and ethnographic approach, the research to be presented aimed to investigate the living and working conditions of this population. The results show that most homeless people in Salvador are male, black, poorly educated and in the productive age. The main causes of homeless conditions observed among this population are lack of family bonds. However, ethnographic research revealed that most homeless participants lost their family contacts because any purpose such as unemployment, drug use, family violence, sexual orientation, separation or death of a spouse. Therefore, our results reinforce the need of going beyond social assistance politicies, such as providing public social dwellings or boarding spaces. It is necessary to rethink about the structural causes of homelessness and plan accordingly a preventive approach to avoid the homeless conditions.