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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]