Sao Paulo is
Brazils financial center and is well-known for its breathtaking
views, its abundant cultural institutions and for their rich
architectural scene. However, there are many negative issues that
are ravaging the lives of the citizens in this city. For starters,
Sao Paulo has terribly congested traffic, a significant amount of
crime and gang violence, a lack of quality in the medicine-health
field, a high amount of air pollution, and also water shortages.
However, these are not the biggest of their obstacles. Sao Paulos
most pressing issue of the moment is the informal housing that is
plaguing the city. This essay will first analyze Sao Paulo,
Brazils informal housing issue, then will compare Sao Paulos
unique obstacle to similar
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The UN
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) define the characteristics of
slum housing as nondurable drinking water, insufficient domestic
space, lack of drinking water, lack of sanitation, and tenure
security. Based on this definition provided by the MDG, Puerto
Rico, Uruguay, and Cuba can be classified as countries that are on
track with the reduction of slum housing, for example. On the other
hand, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El
Salvador, and Paraguay are stabilizing. All other Latin American
countries and Caribbean countries are at risk or off track (Smith
76). Although Brazils condition is stabilizing, there is still a
heavy amount of improvement necessary before we can deny the
significance of the issue. Sao Paulo is still plagued by the slum
houses and the favelas and awareness needs to be constantly shed on
this issue. There is still a lot of work to be done and solely
because the conditions may seem to be stabilizing, it is still
not safe to assume that Brazil will be alright. The housing
conditions of Brazil need to be more than alright, they have to be
more than satisfactory; the conditions need to reach high levels of
success so that the cities and the citizens living within
will
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