A população em situação de rua no período da pandemia de COVID-19

Abstract

This work has as its object of study the homeless population in the midst of the pandemic of covid-19, a disease with a high rate of transmission and risk of death. It aims to analyze the existing public policies aimed at this population and their changes in the face of this pandemic, the mechanisms used and their results. This paper made use of exploratory, qualitative, quantitative, and bibliographic research. Initially, a study was carried out on the characteristics of this population and the main reasons for its existence, followed by an analysis of the history of this population in Brazil, highlighting its struggles and the legal milestones achieved, along with an analysis of the country's conjuncture and governmental actions, next, an explanation is made about the disease and about the need for more attention to the homeless population in this context, and then the changes made in the systems for the care of this population and the influence of governmental action and its results are analyzed. It was verified that the homeless population is a growing population with characteristics according to the historical inequality of the capitalist system and its peculiarities in the formation of Brazil, has its means of survival and grouping, is treated by society sometimes with invisibility, at other times with benevolence, at other times with guilt and or violence.