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Studio-X Rio de Janeiro Discusses Bottom-Up Housing Projects

By Clare Huggins, Julia Jones • October 12, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday October 6, Studio X Rio de Janeiro hosted the event “When People Take Control: Bottom-Up House Making” to discuss alternative ways the world can house all its inhabitants given […]

#EvictionsWatch

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It [BOOK REVIEW]

By David Robertson • October 7, 2015

Clique aqui para Português In the field of psychiatry, there has never been a word that formally diagnoses the pain and trauma resulting from being removed from a home. In her book, Root Shock: How Tearing […]

#EvictionsWatch

Leader of Quilombo das Guerreiras Shares Memories of Occupation, Struggle and Resistance

By Katja Majcen • October 5, 2015

Clique aqui para Português The Quilombo das Guerreiras occupation is a symbol of resistance and community organizing. From 2006 through 2013 over one hundred families occupied and built a community in an abandoned warehouse in […]

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Federal Funding Paves Way for Affordable Housing in the Port Region

By Claudia Antunes • Translation by Carolyn Oliveira • September 23, 2015

Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese by Claudia Antunes published in Vozerio click here. The construction of subsidized housing for low-income families in the Port Region of Rio de Janeiro has been […]

#ParticipationWatch

Conference in the Port Region Brings Tentative Hope to Rio’s Participation Efforts

By David Robertson, Marta Ill-Raga • August 27, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On August 14 and 15, 2015, nearly 300 people gathered in the Utopia Warehouse (Armazém da Utopia) along the coast of Guanabara Bay in the Port region of Rio for a long-awaited conference […]

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