Brazil posts housing deficit of 6 mi homes
Brazil’s housing deficit stood at 6 million households in 2022—8.3 percent of the country’s total occupied housing. The amount is up 4.2 percent from 2019.The deficit is the number of households that need to be replaced as a result of precarious homes (makeshift or hazardous building materials), multifamily co-living (more than one family living in a single-family space), excessive rent (families earning up to three minimum wages and spending at least 30 percent of their income on rent), and densification (three or more people living in each bedroom of a rented home).The figures were released on Wednesday (Apr. 24) by the João Pinheiro Foundation, in partnership with the National Housing Secretariat of the Ministry of Cities.
The deficit is the number of ho...