Clique aqui para Português Um País Chamado Favela (in English, A Country Called Favela) by Renato Meirelles, president of Data Popular, and Celso Athayde, co-founder of CUFA, examines the accomplishments of favelas and their economic advancements, with analysis of informal housing and its economic power […]
Around 30 community members and volunteers met on the morning of Saturday September 20 in Campo Grande‘s Santa Margarida neighborhood in the first of a series of meetings to discuss the launching of a new cross-community […]
Clique aqui para Português Vale Encantado, a favela in the heart of the Tijuca forest, part of the largest urban forest system in the world in the middle of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, was […]
Clique aqui para Português Nearly 100 residents crowded onto a third floor veranda in Vila União de Curicica on Wednesday night to discuss their plan to resist eviction in the face of the TransOlímpica highway […]
Clique aqui para Português On July 22, one of the most read local newspapers in the United Kingdom published an article comparing overcrowded student accommodation in Birmingham to “Third World Shanty Towns.” Local politicians commented that one […]