{"id":6690,"date":"2013-01-30T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:31:05","slug":"rent-doubles-in-alemao-417-families-have-15-days-to-move-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=6690","title":{"rendered":"Rent Doubles in Alem\u00e3o — 417 Families Have 15 Days to Move Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Click here<\/a> for original Portuguese article by Alessandro Lo-Bianco in O Dia.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Carm\u00e9lia,<\/a>
Carm\u00e9lia, in front of the house she had to leave after rent doubled from R$300 to R$600. Photo: Estefan Radovicz \/ Agencia O Dia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since the Complexo do Alem\u00e3o<\/a> community was pacified<\/a> in November of 2010, increased real estate values have caused sleepless nights for at least 417 families left homeless by higher rents. The increase has been greater than 100% in many cases. Residents of the Parque Novo allotment, these families have now occupied the premises of a church that will soon be expropriated by the state to make room for a new public housing development.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no way we could stay. Rent used to be between R$100 and R$250, but now it\u2019s between R$300 and R$1000,\u201d said D\u00e9bora Rodrigues, President of the Parque Novo Residents’ Association. Yesterday the families began registering for social rent<\/a> at the Secretary of Social Assistance. The first installment of R$400 is to be paid February 28. After that, residents will have 15 days to leave the grounds of the church. \u201cI don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll find a place to live here, even with the rent subsidy,\u201d said D\u00e9bora.<\/p>\n

Carm\u00e9lia Andrade de Souza was renting a house for R$300 (US$150\/month). \u201cThe week after pacification, the owner asked me for R$600. I said I couldn\u2019t pay that, and he said I had to go. That\u2019s when I joined the occupation. Groceries went up too. I used to make and sell snacks and a\u00e7a\u00ed. But since prices went up, I haven\u2019t even had enough money to buy the ingredients. For R$500 I\u2019m only finding places of up to 15 square meters — impossible for a family,\u201d she complains.<\/p>\n

Marlucia Nunes, mother of six, suffers from a respiratory condition and can\u2019t make it up to the top of the hill where rent is cheaper. She complains that property owners still require three months’ rent as deposit. \u201cI was renting my place for R$250. It went up to R$500. Where’s the money to eat and pay for electricity and water?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas Click here for original Portuguese article by Alessandro Lo-Bianco in O Dia. Since the Complexo do Alem\u00e3o community was pacified in November of 2010, increased real estate values have caused sleepless […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6707,"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":[1267,1284,335,1330],"tags":[32,179,65,37,15,135],"writer":[722],"translator":[508],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gentrificationwatch","8":"category-interviews-profiles","9":"category-policies","10":"category-translation","11":"tag-complexo-do-alemao","12":"tag-evictee-profile","13":"tag-gentrification","14":"tag-north-zone","15":"tag-pacifying-police-unit","16":"tag-social-rent","17":"writer-alessandro-lo-bianco","18":"translator-rachel-fox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}