National Census
In the question of as they make to survive, almost 20% of them were living of almses and the aid of organizations of the civil society with approximately 80% of them exerting activities with remuneration. Interesting to observe that the research disclosed that the street inhabitants in general are healthful people. But one tero of the total of the interviewed ones informed to have health problems. How much to the discrimination the interviewed ones had said that frequently they are barred in places, as shopping and collective transport. In a total of 71 cities where the city was effected the national survey of They are Jose of the Campos/SP withheld the biggest number of street inhabitants (0.3%), after that the city of Curitiba with the index of 0,2% and Juiz De Fora – MG, occupying 3 position with 0,15% of inhabitants.
Important to mention that the percentages had been calculated on the basis of the total of inhabitants of each city. Another information inserting in the Tax context mentions the city to it of Rio De Janeiro that if compared with the amount of inhabitants possesss the biggest amount of street inhabitants, therefore identified a population of 4.585 a thousand inhabitants of street for a total of six million inhabitants. 1.2 The independent countings of the National Census the data of the MDS had not been including to the cities of Belo Horizonte, Recife. Porto Alegre and So Paulo these cities had been outside of the national survey, for already possessing proper surveys on the street demand. The Census of inhabitants of street carried through in the year of 2005 in Belo Horizonte – MG presented estimate of 916 individuals liveing in the streets with similar characteristics ace of other cities. However Meguerditchian to speech in its article on the increase of the time of these citizens in the streets of Belo Horizonte and other cities mentions that the time passes and they do not leave the streets, these citizens is aging without leaving the streets.