Clique aqui para Português This is the first in our 2026 series reflecting on the city’s favelas 10 years after the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. On August 14, 2025, Rio de Janeiro’s City […]
Clique aqui para Português For the first time in its history, Rio de Janeiro is drafting a Municipal Plan for Social Interest Housing (PMHIS, by its Portuguese acronym). In November, as the PMHIS entered its […]
Clique aqui para Português In Complexo da Maré, a group of 16 favelas with 140,000 residents in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, the Especiais da Maré project (Maré’s Specials, in free translation) serves over 700 […]
Clique aqui para Português The Community Land Trust is a model of collective land tenure that combines individual freedom with collective strength by separating land and home ownership. Originating in the United States in the […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series of profiles of initiatives in Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network and of a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State […]