Economics
Homelessness Surges in Brazil’s Biggest Cities as Covid Fades
Covid wiped out livelihoods and increased costs nationwide.
Members of the State Movement for the Homeless Population (MEPSR) hand out food donations in Sao Paulo on Oct. 26. MEPSR estimates that the number of people who can’t afford housing has tripled since 2019.
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It started out with a couple dozen soups doled out to Sao Paulo’s neediest. Twenty months after the onset of the coronavirus, a line of hundreds of lunch-seekers forms every morning outside Robin Mendoca’s office downtown, snaking for blocks under one of the city’s main avenues.