MEDIEVAL POVERTY IN TODAY’S BUDAPEST

After one and a half decade of the death of so-called Socialism and that of the announcement of free market economy one can witness a poverty unknown for generations coming after the war.

The great but exactly unknown number of the homeless, pressed out from the inner city, try to find for themselves shelters in parks and forests. They find their ’homes’ on Gellért Hill in caves, in the landings and under the arches of the Castle or in ruins of old houses. The poverty reminds one of the medieval ages though so far there has been no victim of the frost. No attempt has been successful so far to solve the problem of homelessness in Hungary.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó