The mayor of São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes, said this Monday (3rd), that the permanence of stalls and people on the streets and sidewalks of the city does not correspond to dignified treatment. It is unacceptable for people to be exposed to the sun, to the rain, without a faucet, a shower, a bathroom, said the mayor. The Justice of São Paulo overturned on Friday (31) the injunction (provisional decision) that prevented the city hall from removing tents set up by the homeless population in public places, such as sidewalks and squares, during the day. The decision was announced on Saturday, and the removal of the tents, which had been suspended since February, began today. Ricardo Nunes recalled that the city hall has been expanding and restructuring the existing reception centers, including the special ones, and increasing the hotel vacancies, which now total 3,500. According to the mayor, all services are monitored by social workers. Four meals are served a day and there are professional training courses so that homeless people can be re-entered the job market. He stated that he does not address this issue as the author of the action that generated the injunction – federal deputy Guilherme Boulos (PSOL-SP) – has done in a partisan-political manner. “It’s something very serious when you talk about people’s suffering. There will be no lack of hospitality for those who wish to be welcomed by the São Paulo City Hall. We have idle spaces. And there will be no shortage of vacancies because we are working to convince people to use the service.” According to the mayor, there is no way to estimate until when people will be removed from the streets, because the work will be done smoothly, with monitoring by social workers, health teams and convincing them to accept care, without haste and in a humane way. “And convincing people that it is not possible to allow tents to be on the streets, because we have to respect everyone’s right to move use the sidewalks. There is no action that will be taken in an uncompromising manner. My orientation is that the approaches are humanized, asking people to dismantle the tents. If you want to set up at night, that’s no problem, but you need to understand that, during the day, it’s not possible”, he added. The mayor emphasized that the tents that are unoccupied will be collected and packed with sealing wax so that the owners can remove them. them at the city hall. from the cold The president of the State Movement of the Street Population of São Paulo, Robson Mendonça, stated that the decision of the Justice authorizing the removal of the tents shows that the Judiciary Power is not concerned with the street population, mainly in a problematic moment with the arrival of lower temperatures. “People need tents to shelter. It is regrettable to have people in the Judiciary who are not concerned with human life. We understand that a tent is not a house and that a sidewalk is not housing, but we also understand that what [prefeito] Ricardo Nunes has opened shelters in insufficient numbers to meet the demand. The street population is very distressed. We are close to low temperatures, with the cold increasing during the night, and this population is out in the open”, he emphasized. According to Mendonça, before taking people out of the tents, it is necessary to define how to shelter them all. “And not how it is being done. , in a completely hygienic way, not dealing with shelter, and even using truculent methods. This is unacceptable”, he complained. In a note, deputy Guilherme Boulos says that it is absurd for the city hall to consider that the homeless population lives on the streets of their own free will, and not because they are abandoned by the public authorities. For Boulos, one of the proofs of this is that there are about 20,000 spaces in shelters for a population of over 48,000 people in the city of São Paulo, according to data from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). “The homeless issue needs to be resolved structurally, not with the use of violence to take what little is left of those who already have almost nothing. We will appeal the court decision and continue fighting for the problem to have a serious solution, which dialogues with the real needs of the homeless population “, adds the deputy’s note.The removal of tents by municipal inspectors had been suspended since February, by decision of judge Juliana Brescansin Demarchi Molina, from the 7th Public Treasury Court of São Paulo. She had accepted a popular action brought by Guilherme Boulos, by the priest Julio Lancelloti and six other people.
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