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Former Residents of Vila Autódromo Denounce Problems in Parque Carioca Replacement Housing

By Vladimir Platonow • Translation by Christopher Owens • June 15, 2015

For the original in Portuguese by Vladimir Platonow, published in Agência Brasil, click here.  Nearly a week after the confrontation between residents of Vila Autódromo and municipal guards in Jacarepaguá, near the future Olympic Village, […]

#HousingWatch

Minha Casa Minha Vida: An Overview of New Public Housing in Rio

By Meg Healy • June 5, 2014

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 a broader effort to […]

#EvictionsWatch

Residents Resettled in Campo Grande are Dissatisfied

By Comitê Popular do Rio • Translation by Jake Cummings • February 24, 2014

Land in Recreio was not utilized after evictions took place there in 2011 to make way for construction of the Transoeste BRT line. For the original in Portuguese on the site for the Popular Committee on the World […]

#EvictionsWatch

Vila União de Curicica: From Upgrading to Removal in Two Years

By Comitê Popular do Rio • Translation by Jake Cummings • February 24, 2014

The community in the path of the TransOlímpica BRT was to be urbanized by City government For the original in Portuguese on the site for the Popular Committee on the World Cup and Olympics click here. On Saturday, […]

#GentrificationWatch

US Professor Pushes Mayor on Affordable Housing

By Blair Cameron • November 4, 2013

Mark Wigley, the Dean of Architecture at New York City’s Columbia University, repeatedly advocated for more affordable housing in Rio de Janeiro in a debate with Mayor Eduardo Paes hosted by Columbia University at the […]

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