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As Funding Delays, Homeless Make Action

Posted by: Nate Berg

17 April 2007 - 10:00am

Housing activists and protesters have continued to occupy buildings in Brazil as they wait for long-delayed government funding for housing.

"In cities like Sao Paulo, a variety of groups are involved in protests over the lack of housing - including the organisation of "roofless" or homeless, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto."

"In the last fortnight this group, among others, has been organising renewed illegal occupations or invasions of empty buildings in Sao Paulo."

"Billons of dollars of government funding towards housing and sanitation in Brazil is now due, money that comes from the government's main development plan, offering promise for the future."

Full Story: Brazil's homeless and landless unite
Source: BBC, April 17, 2007
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