{"id":6323,"date":"2012-12-13T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T12:43:55","slug":"after-prepped-for-morar-carioca-vila-uniao-de-curicica-may-face-complete-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=6323","title":{"rendered":"After Prepped for Morar Carioca, Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica May Face Complete Eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica houses many young residents born there over the course of the community’s 26-year history.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Residents of Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica<\/a>, a Jacarepagu\u00e1 community until 2011 targeted to receive public upgrading projects as part of the Morar Carioca program, now hope dialogue with the Rio de Janeiro city government can prevent their eviction.<\/p>\n

In late 2011, representatives of the 26-year old community were asked to attend a public audience at Rio\u2019s City Council where they were told that part of the community would be removed due to its location in the future path of the TransOl\u00edmpica highway and BRT line. The other half of the community would receive upgrades from the municipal Morar Carioca program as one of eight communities in Curicica<\/a>, part of\u00a0Agrupamento 26<\/a>, together with Asa Branca<\/a>, Abadiana, Curicica II, Santa Maura, Vila Calmete<\/a>, Vila Pitimbu, and Virgol\u00e2ndia.<\/p>\n

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President V\u00e2nia Neri of the Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curirica Residents Association is the point of contact for residents curious about the Prefeitura’s latest announcement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For over six months, president V\u00e2nia de Jesus J\u00falio Neri of the Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica Residents\u2019 Association tried to make contact with a city representative to find out which part of the community would be removed. Then, in September 2012, representatives of the nonprofit iBase<\/a>, which has been contracted by the municipal government to conduct participatory planning activities<\/a> in Morar Carioca communities, requested permission to enter Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica. Permission was granted. Researchers from iBase went door-to-door, asking residents about their desires for the community and their preferences for the future locations of public works such as parks.<\/p>\n

After two weeks, the surveying stopped. At this point V\u00e2nia contacted a representative of Rio\u2019s Housing Secretariat (SMH) who arranged a meeting with V\u00e2nia and past Residents Association President Regina S\u00f4nia Gomes Baptista, known as S\u00f4nia, at the Secretariat\u2019s Vila Pitimbu office. On November 13th, V\u00e2nia and Sonia were told that, in fact, the entire community was going to be removed. It was because of this that the Morar Carioca activities had ended.<\/p>\n

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A 2011 city-produced promotional video for TransOl\u00edmpica shows the planned highway (green) skirting to the south of the Curicica communities, which lie on the other side of Estrada dos Banderantes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On November 17th, V\u00e2nia organized a meeting with community residents to tell them to stop progress on small-scale construction projects underway on their homes so as not to lose progress and money if the homes were to be demolished. On December 6th, there was a meeting held with community residents and a representative of the sub-mayor of Jacarepagu\u00e1<\/a> at which V\u00e2nia voiced her hopes for the situation: that at the very least part or all of the community could remain in its current location and the TransOl\u00edmpica plans be maintained to the original plan<\/a>. In the second-best scenario, that residents would be rehoused in a nearby area where there are no homes currently, such as an open field adjacent to the community Quinze or adjacent to the community Colonia Juliano Morreira. \u201cPeople have roots here,\u201d said Vania, referring to the importance of employment and family networks in the Jacarepagu\u00e1 area.<\/p>\n

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Founding President of Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica Residents Association S\u00f4nia Gomes Baptista (right) has overseen a variety of collective building projects over the years. She worries about losing the product of this labor and the spirit of the community.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

V\u00e2nia\u2019s fear is that families will be relocated to public housing in the far West Zone of the city, Administrative Region 5 (AP 5), where in 2010 the director of SMH advised against building public housing because it was a “regi\u00e3o dormit\u00f3rio<\/a>” devoid of of nearby employment, and that \u201cto encourage the production of social housing in this region would only deepen the city\u2019s socio-spatial segregation and lead to the formation of more ghettos of poverty.\u201d Since then, dozens of subsidized condominiums have sprung up in the AP5 neighborhoods of Bangu, Campo Grande, and Santa Cruz. At the December 6th meeting, the sub-mayor did not give a reply as to the final plans for city construction or resident relocation for Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica.<\/p>\n

Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicia houses some 2,000 residents, whose homes fit the guidelines for legal adverse possession of land outlined in Article 183<\/a> of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. V\u00e2nia notes that throughout its history, Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica has been a peaceful community that has had an open and communicative relationship with representatives of the Mayor\u2019s office. She hopes that this relationship will allow for a clear dialogue with the city government about next steps, with the desire of Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica residents to stay in the Jacarepagu\u00e1 area respected. They are awaiting word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas Residents of Vila Uni\u00e3o de Curicica, a Jacarepagu\u00e1 community until 2011 targeted to receive public upgrading projects as part of the Morar Carioca program, now hope dialogue with the Rio de […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6368,"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":[1293,1736,1284,335,336,1329],"tags":[549,9,581,179,564,11,188,282,26,569,129,1259,147,414,158,1892,592,21,365],"writer":[611],"translator":[],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-evictionswatch","8":"category-1736","9":"category-interviews-profiles","10":"category-policies","11":"category-violations","12":"category-by-international-observers","13":"tag-regiao-dormitorio","14":"tag-9","15":"tag-curicica","16":"tag-evictee-profile","17":"tag-false-arguments","18":"tag-forced-evictions","19":"tag-history","20":"tag-housing","21":"tag-housing-rights","22":"tag-jacarepagua","23":"tag-leadership","24":"tag-mega-events","25":"tag-morar-carioca","26":"tag-negotiations","27":"tag-smh","28":"tag-sub-mayor","29":"tag-vila-uniao-de-curicica","30":"tag-west-zone","31":"tag-zero-participation","32":"writer-catherine-osborn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}