Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese published on EBC click here. Brazil has strong housing rights legislation. Why, then, is it not applied? Brazil has the necessary laws to relieve problems with housing and land regulation. However, […]
Clique aqui para Português On December 16, 2010 Mayor Eduardo Paes signed Decree 33.280 to establish Leopoldina Municipal Urban Park in the Serra da Misericórdia, located in the North Zone of Rio. In 2012, the project […]
Clique aqui para Português Judge William Douglas of the Fourth Federal Circuit issued a decision on July 27 upholding the eviction mandate of subsistence fishing community Praia do Sossego in Niterói, the city located to Rio’s east across […]
Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, July 21, the Caixa de Assistência dos Advogados do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State Lawyers’ Assistance Treasury) hosted the first panel in a series of […]
Twelve residents—all composing a single extended family of subsistence fishermen—occupy three small houses in Praia do Sossego. The beach lies along the coast of Niterói, the city just across the Guanabara Bay to the east of Rio […]