SAO PAULO — Hundreds of people in Sao Paulo’s Paraisopolis slums have taken to the streets to protest against local police three days after nine young people died in a stampede during a police ...

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - The gap between rich and poor in Brazil is huge, but when it comes to housing, they often live side by side. Developers boldly spend millions building high-rise towers and ...

SAO PAULO – SAO PAULO (AP) — A fire has raged through a Brazilian slum, destroying more than 300 homes. Residents of the Real Parque neighborhood in Sao Paulo were frantically using buckets of ...

Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo’s largest slum, Paraisopolis and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the center of the favela of around 120,000 people ...

Sao Paulo is losing population and conditions in slums formed three decades ago have improved with the building of police stations, churches, courts, and schools and improving incomes for residents.

Hundreds of houses painted in a kaleidoscope of vibrant colours line the main streets of Sao Paulo's largest slum -- turning what was once a grim, grey landscape into a source of community pride.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Police contribute to violence in Brazil's slums, barely keeping a presence except for raids that endanger ...

Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo's largest slum, Paraisopolis, and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the center of the favela of around 120,000 people ...

Brazilian teacher and urban planner Raquel Rolnik writes [pt] about a wave of suspicious fires in slums of the city of São Paulo. Allegedly, a few days after the last fire, a construction company had ...

This month, Sao Paulo will finish updating a municipal housing census which will likely show favelas have grown in number and size since the last census in 1987, when there were 2,000 slums.