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#EvictionsWatch

Research Warns About the Impact of Evictions on Residents’ Health

By Cláudia Freitas • Translation by Kayla Boisvert • January 14, 2014

For the original by Cláudia Freitas in Portuguese in Jornal do Brasil click here.  According to data by Fiocruz, hypertension, stroke, depression, and even suicide were reported. Removals occurring in communities such as Complexo do Alemão […]

#CommunityMedia

Cable Car is Still a Source of Controversy

By Viva Favela • Translation by Amanda Bradshaw • January 3, 2014

For the original in Portuguese in Viva Favela click here. More than two years after the inauguration of the cable car in Complexo do Alemão, inspired by the model from Colombia, it’s still generating controversy. […]

#Rio2016

Reflections After a Year of Protest: Rio de Janeiro as ‘Post-Third World City’ or ‘City of Exception’?

By Matthew Richmond • December 24, 2013

After a year of protest it’s time to re-examine what kind of Rio de Janeiro is emerging from the ‘city project.’ The widely (though not universally) held belief that Brazil had entered a new era […]

#GentrificationWatch

OsteRio Debates Gentrification and Regulation of Property Markets in Rio’s Favelas

By Anabela Paiva • Translation by Jake Cummings • December 13, 2013

Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese on the Institute for the Study of Labor and Society (IETS) website click here. New investments, growth in the local economy, the policy of pacification, and […]

Residents criticize the Alemão cable car
#GentrificationWatch

Rocinha and Alemão Plan to Sue the State Over Cable Car

By Cláudia Freitas • Translation by Harriet Batey • October 14, 2013

For the original by Cláudia Freitas in Portuguese for Jornal do Brasil click here.  Residents of both communities are against the construction and want continuity of Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) works Star of an international soap […]

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