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Public participates of a special session with members of favela community museums during the 2023 IPPUR Week. Photo: Bárbara Dias
*Highlight

Urban Planners at Rio’s Federal University Get Special Class on Favela Climate Memory

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Kay Alvito • December 28, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Invited by the Urban and Regional Planning and Research Institute (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and supported by the Research Support Foundation for the State of […]

#HousingWatch

Brazil’s ‘Favela Community Land Trust’ Celebrates Five Years and Hosts International Exchange in Rio de Janeiro

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Nathan Bergrin • November 29, 2023

Clique aqui para Português The Favela Community Land Trust Project* marked its fifth anniversary in 2023, having grown as a model for ensuring stability and security of tenure in self-managed communities. The milestone was celebrated […]

Event Reports

RIP ‘Subnormal Agglomerations,’ Part 2: Housing Rights and Favela Stigma in the Official Nomenclature

By Julio Santos Filho • Translation by Nathan Bergrin • November 9, 2023

Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a series of three about how Brazil’s census bureau, IBGE, held an unprecedented week-long workshop to debate how to change the term “subnormal agglomeration” used […]

*Highlight

RIP ‘Subnormal Agglomerations,’ Part 1: Local Diversity, Strength, and Belonging in a New Official Term

By Julio Santos Filho • Translation by Ezra Spira-Cohen • November 8, 2023

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a series of three about how Brazil’s census bureau, IBGE, held an unprecedented week-long workshop to debate how to change the term “subnormal agglomeration” used […]

*Highlight

Could It Be the End of Abandonment? Residents Join Hands to Revitalize ‘A Little Piece of Heaven’, in Turano Favela [IMAGES]

By Carla Regina • Translation by Nina Lebelbaum • November 8, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Concerned by the neglect facing Pedacinho do Céu, or “Little Piece of Heaven”, as the area atop the Rio de Janeiro favela Morro do Turano is known, current and former residents […]

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