waarom ging het verkeerd met de volkshuisvesting in Brazilië, artikel uit de Guardian.
No better than the slums? What went wrong with Brazil's social housing A social housing scheme aims to help poor people from the favelas and into secure homes, but after five years of mixed success some residents are returning to the slums Ruban Selvanayagam Guardian Professional , Wednesday 26 March 2014 10.08 GMT "Look, I can pull the window off my house – is this the level of security we have?" asked Ênio Oliveira. Oliveira was talking to Brazilian television about what it's like to live in Brazil's government-backed social housing scheme, Minha Casa, Minha Vida (my house, my life). The programme was launched five years ago as a bid to tackle decades of mediocre attempts to eliminate a shortage of 5.24m homes. Its aim was to get millions of Brazil's poorest citizens, such as Oliveria, out of poor living conditions in the country's favelas and slums. The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, has been in charge sin...