The number of families evicted in Brazil in the last year has also increased by 269 percent. | Photo: Despejo Cero

Brasilia, November 24 (RHC)-- The National Zero Eviction Campaign reported on its official website that more than 23,000 families were evicted from their homes since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, specifically from March 2020 to October 2021.

The platform in defense of rural and urban life, which took stock of this situation, also noted that 123,000 Brazilian families are threatened with eviction in the coming months.

The Zero Eviction Campaign, a national project that brings together more than 100 organizations, entities, social movements and collectives to act against evictions and forced evictions of families, indicated that the number of families threatened with losing their homes has increased by 554 percent in the last five years.

Similarly, there was a 269 percent increase in the number of families evicted in Brazil in the last year and the states of Sao Paulo, Pernambuco and Amazonas are those with the highest number of families threatened with eviction.

The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) denounced on Tuesday the decision of the Court of Justice of Sao Paulo which decided to maintain the eviction of 450 families from the Marielle Vive camp, in Valinhos.

The MST of Sao Paulo specified "that the law of capital and private property are positioned against human rights" and qualify that the decision is very serious and inconsistent in the epidemiological situation by COVID-19.

"The families of the Marielle Vive camp have been in the area for more than three years.  In 2018, when the occupation of the farm took place, the place was an abandoned and unproductive area, whose purpose was real estate speculation for the benefit of its investors," the movement stressed.