Favela Bairro Project

What were the aims of the Favela Bairro Project?

• improve infastructure e.g power supplies, water

• improve environment- paved streets and plazas, street names, urban furniture and public services

• introducing social facilities e.g daycare centres, education/skills training, sports, cultural/leisure activities like football

What did they improve?

• local authority provided residents with materials for a ‘self help scheme’ to construct own housing e.g breeze blocks and cement

• Electricity, water and sanitation services improved

• People given addreses, given legal ownership of land

• Secured hillsides to stop landslides and cable car built from favela to city centre with residents getting a free return ticket each day

What are the positive outcomes?

• The program had a small but statistically impact on improved school attendance

• Today, almost most houses in Rocinha are made from concrete and brick

• Most have basic sanitation, plumbing and electricity

What are the negative outcomes?

• $1 billion budget did not cover all favelas

• New infastructure not being not being maintained

• Rent rise in improved favelas meaning poorest worse off

• Cable car Closed 2017 because drug gangs took advantage of them