Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith Slums are a world of alternate power structures – and when alternative power is threatened, it does not go quietly, as featured in an AP story picked up by Google News: Brazilian soldiers on patrol in Vila Cruzeiro RIO DE JANEIRO (AP), November 27, 2010 — The drug [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday we saw that Bolsa Familia, brazil’s signature anti-poverty program that pays families when they keep their children in school, has been a roaring success, measured by outcomes (increased school attendance), cost (much cheaper than direct programs), participation (12,500,000 families), and politics (all current [...]
By: David A. Smith Here’s a novel idea: instead of creating complex programs to direct the poor to help themselves out of poverty, why not just pay them when they do? Would you keep your daughter in school if we paid you? As reported in The Economist, Brazil is doing just that [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s little adventure in my slum tourism looked at the first form of Sao Paulo‘s slum upgrading: the Cingapura program of demolish-and-build-new walkup flats. A light switch, an ash tray, and a saint: the Brazilian office But people don’t like flats as much as houses. Walkup flats [...]
A while back I spent 4½ days in Sao Paulo – my first time in Brazil – getting an immersion tour in why and where and how the municipality and state of Sao Paulo have tackled slum upgrading and urbanization. The biggest city in South America, with 10,000,000 people in the city limits [...]
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