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[ September 21, 2023 ] Leaders at Ten Cultural Spaces, Art Centers, and Museums in Rio Create Climate Projects Using Culture, Art, and Sustainability by Community Contributors
[ September 14, 2023 ] Rio de Janeiro Street Vendors’ Battle for Rights: My Informal Work Matters! [VIDEO] *Highlight
[ September 12, 2023 ] ‘Monkeys’: A Transformative Theater Experience Confronting the Reality of Grieving Mothers and the Genocide of Black Brazilians [REVIEW] *Highlight
[ September 10, 2023 ] Video Press Release: Favela on Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro Gets Solar! Grassroots Women’s Group Invites Press and Allies to Launch of Photovoltaic System in Duque de Caxias *Highlight
[ September 9, 2023 ] The Babilônia Favela’s Solar Energy Tour & Sustainable Favela Network’s Solar Mini-Course [VIDEO] *Highlight

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 […]

Mayor Eduardo Paes Announces Public Housing Project for Ex-Telerj Site

By Meg Healy • May 23, 2014

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 […]