Clique aqui para Português This is Part 3 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 1 and Part 2. In Rio, the end of the 2000s brought a trickle of funding to a […]
For original article in Portuguese in Carta Capital click here. Brazil currently has 12 million people living in favelas. They are responsible for generating R$38.6 billion per year in commercial activity, which is equivalent, for […]
For original article by Fabio Brisolla in Folha de São Paulo, click here. Nine out of ten residents of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, under the age of 30, access the World Wide Web. […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 2 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 1 and Part 3. Walk into a favela in Rio today and you may see railings and […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 1 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 2 and Part 3. Housing rights activists today defend the practice of on-site upgrading of […]