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Temer’s Land Regularization Law, One Year On: Assessing the Impact on Favelas

By Ezra Spira-Cohen • August 17, 2018

Clique aqui para Português In July 2017, federal lawmakers transformed the controversial Provisional Measure 759 into Law 13.465—known as the Land Regularization Law—approving measures that streamline the process of land regularization in urban and rural areas. […]

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Parliamentary Front Against Evictions: Threatened Favelas Criticize City’s Actions

By Sophy Chan • August 16, 2018

On Friday, August 3, the Parliamentary Front Against Removals, Evictions, and the Violation of the Right to Housing hosted a public debate entitled “Housing Rights and the Fight Against Evictions” at City Hall. With over […]

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The Diversity and Global Applicability of the Community Land Trust Model, from Boston to Kenya

By Victoria Fanibi • August 15, 2018

Clique aqui para Português A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a community-managed nonprofit organization or association established to provide permanent affordable housing and build community assets in the territory that it owns and governs. CLTs […]

Sign and banner at the entrance to Vila Autódromo on October 16, 2011
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Not Everyone Has a Price, Part 3: Vila Autódromo’s Rise as a Symbol of Olympic Resistance [VIDEO]

By Theresa Williamson • August 14, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a six-part series that comprises the book chapter entitled “Not Everyone Has a Price: How the Small Favela of Vila Autódromo’s Fight Opened a Path to Olympic […]

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‘Master of the Peripheries’ Award Recognizes Marielle, Conceição Evaristo, Nêgo Bispo, Ailton Krenak

By Edmund Ruge • August 14, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On the evening of Wednesday, August 8, hundreds of spectators packed the Galpão Bela Maré community center for the first-ever “Master of the Peripheries” award ceremony. The award is dedicated to “stimulate […]

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