Improving Favelas in Rio
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- Created on: 12-04-17 14:11
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- Management of Shanty Towns
- Improving the Favelas
- Local communities
- Want to improve quality of life and end gang culture
- Charities
- Government departments
- While they want to improve conditions in shanty towns, they do not want to encourage more to develop
- Problems with gangs, violence and drug culture
- Local communities
- Site and Service schemes
- Give people the chance to rent or buy a piece of land
- Land is connected to the city by transport links
- Access to essential services such as running water
- People can build their own homes using money from a low-interest loan
- Problems - restricted by surrounding mountains and heavy rain can lead to flooding
- Rural Investment
- May help to improve conditions in the city aswell
- Improving the quality of life in rural areas may prevent people from migrating to urban areas
- Self-help schemes
- Set up by authorities in Rio
- People are given tools and training to improve their homes
- Materials provided to construct permanent housing
- Residents provide the labour
- Money saved on labour can be spent on basic amenities such as water and electricity
- Facilities like schools, health clinics and recreational areas are provided
- Some residents buy the houses or pay rent
- This does not help the unemployed or very low paid
- Rocinha favela in Rio
- Most homes made from concrete and brick
- Have basic sanitation, plumbing and electricity
- Cost the government over £200 million
- Pacification
- Policy by authorities to remove gang culture
- Stage 1 - armed police units go into favelas to drive out criminal gangs
- Permanent police presences make area safer
- Stage 2
- Rios municipal authority can provide social services
- Schools, healthcare centres and rubbish colleciton
- Rios municipal authority can provide social services
- 30 of Rio's favelas have been pacified since 2008
- 400,000 people in Rio benefitting
- 1.1 million people still do not benefit from pacification
- 400,000 people in Rio benefitting
- Stage 1 - armed police units go into favelas to drive out criminal gangs
- Policy by authorities to remove gang culture
- Improving the Favelas
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