Clique aqui para Português Click here for original article in Portugese in Vila Favela. Technology plays an ever greater role in our lives: the fact that you are reading this now attests to this. Nowadays, we […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Victor Domingues in Portuguese published in Observatório de Favelas click here. According to estimates by the São Paulo Civil Defense, one person died and 300 were left homeless […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 1 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 2 and Part 3. Housing rights activists today defend the practice of on-site upgrading of […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese click here S.O.S. PROVIDÊNCIA Did you know the oldest favela in Brazil is being destroyed? Since 2009, Rio’s Port Region has been transformed into a […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first of four articles about the cluster of favelas in Curicica, Jacarepaguá, that are awaiting urban integration projects through the Morar Carioca upgrading program. “There’s never been violence here.” […]