The Sao Paulo authorities are providing tiny homes for homeless families living in their densely-populated city.
Known as the “Vila Reencontro Program”, this program began during the Covid-19 pandemic and has since been used to help homeless families struggling in Sao Paulo.
CGTN’S Paulo Cabral visited the Reencontro tiny homes village.
I’m all for homes for homeless people, but this seems to be the trendiest bandaid. The only fix is to give people houses because there’s plenty of housing for everyone. We don’t need to make these new weak infrastructure homes that probably won’t last ten years. I am happy more people have homes.
Tiny homes aren’t necessarily poorly made. I think having a stock of them as temporary housing would be a good thing. Get people into shelter immediately while helping them get something more permanent. Large social housing projects would be better, though.
Hopefully these are interim dwellings, and hopefully they are nicer than the prebuilt shacks used by American cities, but at least they’re doing more than bolsonaro ever would
Very good, unless they forget about the temporary part. That’s what went wrong in Berlin.
