Government-Housing Solutions
São Paulo's micro-houses keeping homeless families off the streets by Katy Watson BBC 8/23/23
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66053560
The first village of micro-houses was built close to the banks of the Tiete River, in the neighbourhood of Canindé. Home to one of São Paulo's original favelas, today the site houses 20 or so families, each living in a little box that looks similar to a shipping container and measures 18 sq m.
A square with a playground gives the area a community feel. Children are playing with toys, their parents sitting on benches and watching on.
The aim is to build a total of 1,000 such houses across the city by the end of the year, housing 4,000 people.
"It's a way of looking after people based on the well-known international concept of Housing First, offering housing as the first step in helping to get them back on their feet," explains Carlos Bezerra Junior, who is the social welfare secretary at São Paulo City Hall, which is in charge of the project.
Daniela Martins, 30, walks me around her micro-house.
