For the original by Beatriz Lindolfo in Portuguese in Maré de Notícias click here. Traffic in Rio de Janeiro isn’t easy for anyone. Maré de Notícias went to the bus and van stops, in both directions, […]
Clique aqui para Português Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV; in English “My House My Life”) is Brazil’s first-ever effort at large-scale public housing, an ambitious nationwide program tasked with constructing 3.4 million homes as part of […]
Clique aqui para Português In a country that has seen the number of cars more than double in the last decade, and in what is now Brazil’s most congested city, Rio de Janeiro’s four planned BRT (Bus […]
The map shows that hundreds of residents from Vila Autódromo do not want to be removed from their homes, disproving the City’s statements. Residents wants Mayor Eduardo Paes to uphold his promises of urbanization. The […]
Mayor Eduardo Paes announced last weekend the purchase of land from the ex-Telerj/Oi settlement in Engenho Novo in Rio’s North Zone. The announcement came during the inaugural ceremony of the final 740 public housing units […]