Clique aqui para Português Earlier this year, the Rio de Janeiro City Council passed Law 6.334/2018 prohibiting the installation of public utility Light’s new model of electric meters, also retroactively requiring the company to remove all models […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the final article in a four-part series on the potential to apply the Community Land Trust (CLT) model under existing Brazilian laws to secure land rights in Brazil’s favelas. The series was written for a […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a six-part series that comprises the book chapter entitled “Not Everyone Has a Price: How the Small Favela of Vila Autódromo’s Fight Opened a Path to Olympic […]
Clique aqui para Português Thursday, May 24 was a breakthrough day for the Popular Council and its fight for housing rights in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Not only were some members present at […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the final article in a five-part series on community museums and resistance in Rio’s favelas in honor of Brazil’s 16th Annual Museum Week (May 16-20, 2018). “Evictions don’t just remove people, they […]