"Somos humanos nas ruas, não somos lixo": análise da política nacional para a população em situação de rua e o caso do município do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This article aims to analyze policies to the population living on the street, with a special focus on the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, which has not adhered to the National Policy for Population in the Street Situation (PNPSR – in portuguese). The research problems are: what are the mechanisms used by the public power to effect the rights of the population in the street situation? What is the degree of articulation of such measures? Do they allow the exit of streets? The methodology follows the proposal of analysis from the juridical-institutional view of the public policies of Bucci. Primary data (in particular Federal Decree 7.053 / 2009 and Rio de Janeiro Municipality No. 1543/2015) and secondary data (reports, scientific articles, and information collected in seminars) were analyzed. The analysis of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro is justified by the constant increase in the number of people in the street situation and the measures thought, in particular, in the megaevents. As a result, it was verified that the low level of institutionalization of the PNPSR opens space for federal entities to act in a palliative and immediate manner, as in the case of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, which does not allow the population to leave the streets and neither effective access to their rights.