On any day of the week, night or morning, approximately 1.300 people use crack in the open air in the center of São Paulo. The State of São Paulo has around 50 thousand homeless residents.
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The problem is not new and has challenged governments for more than three decades. The government and city hall of São Paulo presented a new project that aims to intervene in the region:
- Um social program so that homeless people are hired by rural producers,
- 'Cracolândia Monitor', an application that monitors crimes and the number of drug addicts. In recent weeks, São Paulo city hall has surrounded Praça da Sé with fences.
In addition to the social problem, the Crackland represents an obstacle to real estate exploration and economic projects for the center of the capital of São Paulo.
The state government then intends to carry out a general cleaning of the center and build a “new administrative center” in the region, just like the Esplanada dos Ministérios in Brasília.
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The growth of violence in the city center is no longer news to anyone, but it becomes even more frightening if analyzed on the new platform: in February, 2.419 people were arrested red-handed in the capital, 129 incidents of drug possession were recorded, 418 of drug trafficking and 131 drug seizures.
In total, 7.485 police investigations were opened in the second month of 2023.
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