We went there for my husband’s work, we came together. He is a workman, construction. We lived in a house inside a warehouse. We lived there for two and a half years, I think. Almost three. In 700. My house was made of brick, it had a floor. Everything was cool. It had a bedroom,
My name is Marcos Antonio dos Santos Goncalves. I lived in the famous Metro, in the Magueira complex, at the bottom, you know. They wanted to take advantage of the space to build parking for the World Cup, that whole thing, so they made this proposal to us. For housing, how to deal with the
My name is Marcio Henrique de Jesus Moza, I am 36 years old and I am a telecommunications co-ordinator. My house here wasn’t a palace, but it was comfortable. It had a bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom, with PVC lining, everything tiled, with plastered walls. It was a comfortable house, tidy, everything was in
They always said we would have to leave Sao Sebastian. For more than 30 years, they said we would have to go because of some construction works, a highway, then one fine the news arrived… Thiago Rabinez, Raminez, the deputy mayor before Alex, he held a meeting in the Sao Sebastian Church, and showed us
The first ones to leave were going to get a three-bedroom apartment. But afterwards, all residents who were being disappropriated would leave with an apartment and the extra value in money, you know? This was in 2015. This was the case for everyone. No one left there after that without getting two, three apartments and
There, there were two brick rooms, and a broken part, which City Hall itself broke. [How long were you there for?] 14 years. [Where did you live before?] In Complexo do Alemao, because of my mother. [How did you find out you were going to be evicted?] Through the meetings that City Hall held. We
We went through such a hard time up until we got here, because of the Olympics. They claimed the favela was getting in the way, bothering the world’s vision, that gringoes couldn’t see the favela next to the Maracana stadium. What a lie! Because the favela is there now, destroyed. We didn’t know that City
My name is Jose Ronilson da Silva, I am 35 years old. At the moment, I am a doorman. I intend to live here, but we’ll be living here provisionally. Those white containers over there, that’s where we are going to live for three months. When the three months are over, we are going to
My house was going to be an exchange of keys: I would get the apartment, equivalent to the value of my two-storey house. They were going to arrange a piece of land for me, a group of BRT [bus rapid transit] lands – some would be left over after – and they were going to
It’s better, in the housing sense, it’s better. To tell the truth I liked it there as well, but in terms of comfort it’s much better here. What hits hardest here is paying bills, gas, electricity. The condominium charges are not expensive, but even then some people can’t afford it, as everything gets tight. Jose
