Clique aqui para Português For the original by Andressa Cabral in Portuguese on Viva Favela click here. It took 14 years to execute, with 140 favelas and allotments benefitting from US$600 million in investment. Twenty […]
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 […]
The map shows that hundreds of residents from Vila Autódromo do not want to be removed from their homes, disproving the City’s statements. Residents wants Mayor Eduardo Paes to uphold his promises of urbanization. The […]
Mayor Eduardo Paes announced last weekend the purchase of land from the ex-Telerj/Oi settlement in Engenho Novo in Rio’s North Zone. The announcement came during the inaugural ceremony of the final 740 public housing units […]
The eviction last Friday, April 10, saw over 8,000 people forcibly removed from the disused Telerj (now known as Oi) site, with 21 people injured, 18 arrested and four unconfirmed dead. Reports suggest the 4.30am […]