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Favela Citizenship and the UPPs
“I just want to be happy, walk with tranquility in the favela where I was born. And be proud and have the awareness that a poor person has his place… My dear authorities, I don’t know […]
Research & Analysis
Research & Analysis
Shrinking Inequality? Incomes of Blacks and Northeasterners Increase at Twice the Average Rate
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Agência Globo in Portuguese published in Pragmatismo Político click here. The incomes of middle class (“Class C”) blacks and northeasterners have grown at twice the national average. Women […]
by International Observers
A History of Favela Upgrades Part I (1897-1988)
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 1 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 2 and Part 3. Housing rights activists today defend the practice of on-site upgrading of […]
Policies
My House, My Debt?*
Clique aqui para Português View original article in Portuguese here. Article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing. Researchers from IPEA, the Institute for Applied Economic Research, recently published a study that suggests that […]
Civil Society
Favela NGOs rewrite social identities and combat stigma, affirms new LSE study
Non-governmental organizations in Rio’s favelas that work with art, culture, sport and civic engagement provide structures that allow young people to escape a career of crime and, by actively showing that drugs, violence and crime […]