{"id":28804,"date":"2016-05-11T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=28804"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:34:25","slug":"83-of-families-made-homeless-in-niteroi-in-2010-are-still-without-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=28804","title":{"rendered":"83% of Families Made Homeless in Niter\u00f3i in 2010 Are Still Without Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the original article by Leonardo Sodr\u00e9\u00a0in Portuguese published by O Globo\u00a0<\/em>click<\/em> here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Six years after the storm, the calm\u00a0is still far from arriving. Of the 3,200 families displaced in the tragedy that caused a number of landslides<\/a>\u00a0across the city of\u00a0Niter\u00f3i<\/a>, 2,646 still haven’t\u00a0received the homes\u00a0promised by authorities at the time. Just\u00a0554 apartments have been delivered to residents of low-income neighborhoods and communities around\u00a0Morro do Bumba<\/a>\u00a0in Niter\u00f3i, in Greater Rio<\/a>. Without the promised homes, hundreds of victims that lived in Fonseca, Caramujo, Baldeador, Morro do Estado, Morro do C\u00e9u, Morro do Castro, and Cubango still crowd the Civil Center of the Rio de Janeiro State Public Defenders’ Office<\/a>, where over 800 cases brought forth\u00a0by those who stopped receiving or never received social rent<\/a> are in progress.<\/p>\n

Of the 554 apartments delivered by the City through the Minha Casa Minha Vida<\/a>\u00a0federal housing program, by Brazilian federal savings bank Caixa Econ\u00f4mica, 180 were built\u00a0in Vi\u00e7oso Jardim in 2012. Another 374 families moved to the Zilda Arns 1 and 2 condominiums<\/a> in Fonseca last year.<\/p>\n

According to the Niter\u00f3i city government, social rent in the amount of R$400 per month is currently being paid to 2,243 families, 403 fewer than the 2,646 who still have no homes. Part of this total still awaits delivery of the 1,240 units under construction in the area of the former Army Infantry Battalion (3rd IB) in Venda da Cruz. The works are behind schedule, since the initial expected delivery date was February.<\/p>\n

General services assistant Vanildo Silva, 48, is at risk until today. His home, at Travessa S\u00e3o Luiz in Igrejinha, was condemned by the city’s Civil Defense Office after the rains in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to leave the house with my wife, my sister, who has special needs, and my daughter who was 4 years old at the time. A friend of mine in Rio do Ouro took me in as a favor. I tried to register for social rent at the Social Assistance Reference Center in Badu but was never able to receive it. After two years, my only option was to return to my condemned home,\u201d he explains, and continues to wait for a new assessment\u00a0by the Civil Defense Office, requested three months ago by the courts\u00a0and which as yet has not been carried out.<\/p>\n

Day worker Lindomara Aparecida da Souza lived with her two children in Morro do C\u00e9u, in Caramujo. She also says she registered to receive social rent, but was unable to:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy house fell down, and until now\u00a0I have only received one payment, in September of last year. The rent at the house I\u2019m currently living is many months late. I can\u2019t pay it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Re-registration increases number of cases<\/h3>\n

According to the Public Defenders’ Office, the number of cases in the courts\u00a0pleading payment of social rent has been increasing due to cuts to this benefit that began in December 2015, after the re-registration carried out by the city government in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery week we have three to four people complaining about the suspension in social rent payments. Some even say they have returned to homes damaged by the rains in 2010, even those in danger of collapsing, since they are no longer receiving the benefit,\u201d says Christiane Byrro, advocate at the Civil and Consumer First Consultation Service Center in Niter\u00f3i.<\/p>\n

Around half of the 800 cases were judged in Itabora\u00ed and S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo<\/a>, among other cities. According to the Public Defenders’ Office, a number of families moved\u00a0to neighboring cities after the tragedy. In proceedings in the 1st and 2nd civil courts of Niter\u00f3i, which are covered by\u00a0the Civil Center of the Public Defenders’ Office, there are around\u00a0400 of these cases. Public defender Marina Oliveira works on these cases and says that in some of them the courts decide in favor of cutting the benefit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are appealing the suspension of social rent, but some of the judges believe the government cannot carry the financial burden forever. Meanwhile, the families have neither received their houses nor the benefit to help them support themselves,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Niter\u00f3i city government claims that social rent is paid by the state government. The State Secretariat\u00a0of Social Assistance explained that it manages payment of the benefit, and that registration is the responsibility of the city. The city administration said that it received the registration list prepared in 2010 by the former city management, with 3,200 families. According to the city, the state government periodically requests that beneficiaries re-register themselves to avoid undue payments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe benefit is cancelled for those who do not re-register. Since 2010, a number of families have stopped\u00a0receiving social rent\u2013because they have moved, or they are no longer in a dangerous situation, they acquired another house with their own funds, their family income has increased, or because the benefit was being unduly paid,\u201d said the city government\u00a0in a statement, stressing that Vanildo and Lindomara are not registered. The city added that beneficiaries who stopped receiving the payments should call the Social Action Office or visit the office at Avenida Ernani do Amaral Peixoto 171, room 402, in downtown Niter\u00f3i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original article by Leonardo Sodr\u00e9\u00a0in Portuguese published by O Globo\u00a0click here. Six years after the storm, the calm\u00a0is still far from arriving. Of the 3,200 families displaced in the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1854,1288,1330,336],"tags":[1166,2055,2054,2060,2053,1197,282,26,151,673,820,2059,2058,2056,157,551,887,69,1798,120,135,2057,2052],"writer":[2051],"translator":[338],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-housingwatch","8":"category-highlight","9":"category-translation","10":"category-violations","11":"tag-awaiting-public-housing","12":"tag-baldeador","13":"tag-caramujo","14":"tag-cubango","15":"tag-fonseca","16":"tag-greater-rio","17":"tag-housing","18":"tag-housing-rights","19":"tag-landslide-risk","20":"tag-misplaced-public-priorities","21":"tag-morro-do-bumba","22":"tag-morro-do-castro","23":"tag-morro-do-ceu","24":"tag-morro-do-estado","25":"tag-minha-casa-minha-vida","26":"tag-niteroi","27":"tag-precarious-housing","28":"tag-public-defenders","29":"tag-rio-state","30":"tag-sao-goncalo","31":"tag-social-rent","32":"tag-vicoso-jardim","33":"tag-zilda-arns","34":"writer-leonardo-sodre","35":"translator-carolyn-oliveira"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28804"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=28804"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=28804"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=28804"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=28804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}