Clique aqui para Português The Rio de Janeiro City Council Chambers were filled past capacity the first two Wednesdays in April as over 120 people mobilized for the right to housing. Filling both the galleries […]
Clique aqui para Português On February 6, 2019, a storm fell over Rio de Janeiro in the late afternoon and lasted until dawn. According to the final report following the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) […]
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, December 14, Judge Francisco de Assis Pessanha Filho, 14th Civil Chamber of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Appeals (TJ-RJ), ordered 70 families occupying the building at Rua Alcântara […]
Clique aqui para Português As part of the UN’s Urban October’s Urban Circuit 2022 and World CLT Day 2022, the Favela Community Land Trust Project* held the webinar ‘New Paths for Building Sustainable Cities: The Potential […]
Clique aqui para Português Over 175,000 people were evicted from favelas in the state of Rio between 1960 and 1973, a period historian Mário Brum calls the “Era of Evictions” in his thesis Cidade Alta: History, […]