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Vila Autódromo Residents Halt Construction at Olympic Site in Protest Against Evictions [SLIDESHOW]

By Brooke Parkin • April 3, 2015

With 500 days to go until the start of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, residents of Vila Autódromo took to the street to protest against the City’s latest decree of eminent domain to list […]

#UPPWatch

The Death of UPP Social: Failing to Make Participation Work

By Ed Bentsi-Enchill, Jessica Goodenough, Michel Berger • March 30, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On July 23rd of last year, Eduarda La Rocque, president of the IPP–Instituto Pereira Passos, Rio’s city planning agency–was invited by the NGO Move Rio to give a talk on “The […]

#EvictionsWatch

Mayor Announces Eminent Domain in Vila Autódromo as MIT Report Criticizes City Policy

By Brooke Parkin • March 25, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On Friday March 20 the city of Rio de Janeiro marked 58 families for eviction from their homes in Vila Autódromo, a community that has been torn apart due to its location adjacent to the 2016 Olympic […]

#EvictionsWatch

The Sociocultural Occupation of Mama África Awaits Upgrades [IMAGES]

By Bruno Morais • Translation by Emma Platais • February 23, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Houses numbered 48 and 50 on Passos da Pátria Street, in Niterói, share a special history of struggle for housing and dignity. Occupied for more than 20 years, 36 families now live inside their walls. […]

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Authorities Fail to Monitor Whether Public Housing Residents Benefit from the Program

By Luã Marinatto, Rafael Soares • Translation by Emma Platais • February 11, 2015

Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in Jornal Extra, click here [original article features video with X.]. The Ministry of Cities, the federal bank Caixa, the Municipal Housing Secretariat–none of these authorities know if […]

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