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Interview With a Former Public Defender: Rio Attorney Alexandre Mendes Launches Book on Favela Removals [INTERVIEW]

By Eduardo Sá • Translation by Cara D’Rosario • January 30, 2017

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Eduardo Sá in Portuguese published by Fazendo Media click here. Various studies and specialists have declared that the last decade was the period during which the most people were evicted from their […]

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Housing Policy Lessons from Rio’s Favelas Part 5: Proposing Solutions

By David Robertson • January 3, 2017

Clique aqui para Português This is the fifth in a five-part series titled Housing Policy Lessons from Rio’s Favelas. We hope this series will inform debates on housing and favela upgrading and that Rio’s new mayor, Marcelo […]

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Open Letter from the Second National Seminar on Favela Upgrading

By Urb Favelas • Translation by Jim Shyne • December 8, 2016

Clique aqui para Português We, participants in the Second National Seminar on Favela Upgrading, held from November 23-26, 2016, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, understand that the urgency of Brazil’s current financial, fiscal, and economic […]

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Port Region Residents Suffer with Ceaseless Light Rail Construction #OlympicLegacyWatch

By Mariah Barber • November 28, 2016

Clique aqui para Português In 2013, construction for the Veículo Leve Sobre Trilhos (VLT) or Light Rail System, led by Rio’s Port revitalization program, Porto Maravilha’s (Marvelous Port) VLT Carioca Consortium, began throughout Rio de Janeiro’s […]

MCMV public housing in City of God. Photo by Clarice Castro
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Housing Policy Lessons from Rio’s Favelas Part 4: Public Housing

By David Robertson • November 22, 2016

Clique aqui para Português This is the fourth in a five-part series titled Housing Policy Lessons from Rio’s Favelas. We hope this series will inform debates on housing and favela upgrading and that Rio’s new mayor, Marcelo […]

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