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Patricia Basile

Researcher | Writer | Educator | Consultant

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Category: Informality

A Framework for Informal Settlements and Community Land Trusts

CLTs represent another tool in the informal settlement toolbox with the capability to provide permanently affordable housing, community control, quality of life improvements, and wealth-building opportunities

affordable housing, community control, Community Land Trust, community ownership, housing policy, Informality, land titling, upgrading

Stop using the word “slum”

The use of the word slum has been intensely criticized for the past twenty years for a variety of reasons

development, Global South, Informality, shelter, stigma

The “State of Exception”: Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Games and Housing Evictions

Vila Autódromo’s experience reveals the potentials of community action for favelas in Brazil and for low-income communities around the world

Brazil, Evictions, favelas, Informality, Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, State of Exception

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community control Community Land Trusts Housing Informality participatory budgeting Resistance

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