#7 - Supporting favelas in Brazil to thrive with Adam Newman
There are over 1,000 favelas in Rio De Janeiro; over the last 9 years, the number of favelas in Brazil has nearly doubled and more than 16 million people call these communities home across the country.These densely populated informal urban settlements have been subjected to nearly 500 years of racial and socio-economic discrimination and with soaring inflation, a lack of basic resources, rampant crime, and a widening income disparity between the upper and lower classes, local residents are fa...