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By: Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos Santos
In: Encyclopedia of Homelessness
Edited by: David Levinson
Subject:Housing Policy, Poverty & Homelessness, Poverty & Inequality
Keywords:Brazil; homelessness; slums; street children; street life; survival strategies; UNICEF

To understand homelessness in Brazil, one must consider some of the systemic forces behind the nation's wide social disparities. Grinding poverty and misery coexist with great industrial wealth; 20 percent of the population is extremely poor, while 1 percent is extremely ...

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  dos Santos, M. (2004). Brazil. In D. Levinson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of homelessness (Vol. 1, pp. 36-38). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952569.n17
  
  dos Santos, Maria Cecília Loschiavo. "Brazil." In Encyclopedia of Homelessness, edited by Levinson, David, 36-38. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2004. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952569.n17.
  
  dos Santos, M. 2004. Brazil. In: David Levinson Editor, 2004. Encyclopedia of Homelessness, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 36-38 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952569.n17> [Accessed 16 Aug 2022].
  
  dos Santos, Maria Cecília Loschiavo. "Brazil." Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Edited by David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2004, pp. 36-38. SAGE Knowledge. 16 Aug 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952569.n17.
  
  dos Santos, Maria Cecília Loschiavo (2004). Brazil In: Levinson, David (Ed.),Brazil Encyclopedia of homelessness Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2004:36-38. doi:10.4135/9781412952569.n17
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