favelas

“Tens of thousands of residents including a majority of Blacks live in what are called 'favelas' what we would call informal housing, they call shantytowns.”

The Huffington Post: Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson: A Getaway Weekend In Rio de Janeiro

“If this thing isn't useful to informal community designers living in favelas, it'll fail.”

Boing Boing

“Two years ago, he caused an uproar when he called favelas”

The Wall Street Journal: Walls Around Rio's Slums Protect Trees

“Since 2008, Rio de Janeiro's law and order governor, Sergio Cabral, has spearheaded an effort to begin policing sprawling shanty villages, called favelas, which are under the sway of criminal gangs who control access to the neighborhoods with armed checkpoints.”

The Wall Street Journal: Brazil's Strike on Drug Gangs in Slums Yields Top Rio Boss

“Keeping the peace and spreading it to the hundreds of other shantytowns, known as favelas, that cling to the hills that slope down to Rio ' s beaches may be the hard part.”

The Wall Street Journal: Rio Police Gain Edge Against Gangs

“And we talked to a few police in the nearby so - called favelas who say they think they can do it.”

CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2009

“As investment dried up, huge slums known as favelas sprouted, crime worsened and a general malaise set in that was halted only with the successful Olympic bid in October 2009.”

TIME.com: Top Stories

“This is a rumble from the urban jungle, better known as favelas, where some of the parts are far greater than the sum of the parts.”

AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

“The ADA are fiercely intolerant of crime within the favelas themselves as this attracts police attention, because of this many of the favelas are a very safe places to live.”

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