Características das políticas socioassistenciais destinadas à população em situação de rua em países latino-americanos

The aim is to present a study on the characteristics of socialassistance policies for the homeless in Latin American countries. In the field of social work and social policy, it is based on a critical-dialectical framework. The results show that in Latin America access to social policies is reduced and they are designed according to the residual model, which provides for targeting and selectivity to achieve greater effectiveness, but they provide reduced assistance to one of the groups that, according to the principle of selectivity, should be selected: the homeless. This is a documentary and field study, defining the countries according to the criteria of having a survey, having a census of the homeless and having legislation regulating their rights. For the field and documentary research, a script was prepared and the interviews were semi-structured.