Clique aqui para Português Pasmado is a new play exploring residents’ experiences of the forced eviction of the Pasmado favela, formerly located in the Rio de Janeiro South Zone neighborhood of Botafogo, during the 1960s. The […]
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 On October 14, 2022, youth from the Almirante Tamandaré State School got together to hear from older residents who fought against evictions in the favela of Vidigal during the military dictatorship […]
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, […]