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São Paulo, capital of the homonymous State, rises on a plateau about 70 Km far from the Atlantic Ocean and covers an area of 1.523 square kilometers.
São Paulo Metropolitan Region is the widest of the south hemisphere and with 20 million of inhabitants is the world's third largest metropolitan area. Adding the large neighboring areas, São Paulo officially forms a megalopolis larger than Rio de Janeiro and the world's second largest behind Tokyo.
The city represents the main financial and industrial centre in the South America and one of the most important attractor for international companies and economic activities.
Aside the economic relevance, São Paulo shows a great cultural vivacity, influenced and enriched by the numerous groups of immigrants who set up in the city: in fact, São Paulo is considered the most important cultural pole in Brazil, the place where were born the major artistic movements of the XX century in the Country.
These positive remarks meet with a very articulated social and cultural stratification which finds her direct expression in an incredible urban complexity.
A metropolitan area so wide become inevitably a set of different and conflicting urban situations and shows how, despite the positive economic trend of the country, wide marginal areas still exist and live in an emergency situation of poverty.
For these reasons the demand of an affordable housing stays as one of the basic problem to face.
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