{"id":23232,"date":"2015-07-27T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=23232"},"modified":"2016-01-20T13:53:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T16:53:57","slug":"after-7-years-of-struggle-rios-latest-cooperative-public-housing-is-nearly-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=23232","title":{"rendered":"After 7 Years of Struggle, Rio’s Latest Cooperative Public Housing is Nearly Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, July 12, the community of\u00a0Quilombo da Gamboa<\/a> held a memorable ceremony\u00a0in one of the Vizinha Faladeira samba school sheds\u00a0to celebrate\u00a0the signing of a rare<\/a> cooperatively-built\u00a0Minha Casa Minha Vida<\/a> public housing contract in the downtown\u00a0Port area<\/a>.\u00a0The project will be the second Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades\u00a0cooperative housing<\/a> development in the Metropolitan Region, following the recently completed Esperan\u00e7a Condominium<\/a>\u00a0in the West Zone<\/a>. Quilombo da Gamboa is located within the Porto Maravilha<\/a>\u00a0project boundaries, next to Cidade do Samba (Samba City, where carnival floats are built and stored), and will consist of 116 housing units, 74 two-bedroom and 42 one-bedroom apartments.<\/p>\n

The event celebrating the signing of the contract\u00a0included a panel featuring\u00a0the Center for Popular\u00a0Movements<\/a>‘ (CMP) leader Marcelo Edmundo Braga, National Union for Popular Housing\u00a0<\/em>(UNMP) Rio de Janeiro Regional Coordinator Jurema da Silva Constancio, Sandra Hiromi Kokudai of the Bento Rubi\u00e3o Foundation for Human Rights, regional representatives of Caixa Economica Federal housing bank, Rio director of\u00a0National Patrimony\u00a0Eduardo Fonseca<\/a>, and president of the Port Urban Development\u00a0Company (CDURP<\/a>) Alberto Silva, Municipal Housing Secretary<\/a> Carlos Portinho, as well as community representative Nilde, former resident\u00a0of Quilombo das Guerreiras<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is thanks to the very efficient mobilization actions and pressure from you that this panel was created,\u201d said Municipal Housing Secretary Portinho, pointing out that the panel itself can be considered a\u00a0successful result of a long struggle of communities to set up an affordable housing project.<\/p>\n

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CMP leader and quilombo coordinator Marcelo Edmundo spoke first, thanking every individual in the room for their good will and desire to participate\u00a0in this unique project. He described the process that led to the contract as a\u00a0\u201chistoric symbol of fight in the port area, of people fighting for their rights in a region where samba was born. It is a region marked by fight and resistance, continuously building its history<\/a>. The city of Rio de Janeiro is what we see here in the center<\/a>, and it is not Ipanema or Leblon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Edmundo’s words, another member of the panel expressed that the fight is not over. According to UNMP coordinator Jurema da Silva Constancio, \u201cthe hardest battle is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The event continued with an overview of several self-managed housing cooperatives and urban occupations<\/a> in Rio de Janeiro’s metropolitan region, presented by Sandra Hiromi Kokudai from Bento Rubi\u00e3o Foundation. The NGO was involved from the initial phase of the project seven years ago, when the group had to identify public land<\/a> in the port area that could be used for the development of\u00a0social housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Carol Rezende, architect at Chiq da Silva association and lead designer of the housing project, identified\u00a0the project’s different facets\u00a0of sustainability<\/a>, focusing on four scales: \u201cthe object,\u201d \u201cthe individual,\u201d \u201cthe environment,\u201d and \u201cthe world.\u201d The project was created in close collaboration<\/a> with future inhabitants, thanks to numerous participatory<\/a> workshops organised by Chiq da Silva that began back in 2008 and are still ongoing. Environmentally speaking, the housing complex will include solar shading as well as cross ventilation to allow for a livable climate.<\/p>\n

Rezende said: \u201cSelf-managed projects are developed with a different logic, by an entire series of stakeholders, including future occupants and social movements. It is an incredible part of one\u2019s life and we believe it can really bring about major changes in the social structure of our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Event<\/a><\/p>\n

Following a seemingly never-ending bureaucratic procedure of almost seven years, the group reached the long awaited moment. The panel signed the contract for the first phase of the project\u00a0in front of a uplifted\u00a0audience and the event concluded with a samba concert and a meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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