In 2009, the Lula government launched the "Minha Casa Minha Vida" project to build one million homes for the poorest sectors of the population. After the planning phase and construction time the plan "Minha Casa, Minha Vida" became a reality and we can start to see results, not always positive.
In the case of Rio, in my opinion the most interesting and emblematic, people who are going to live in these new realities come mainly from the favelas that the Prefecture is trying to "clean up" ahead of the World Cup and the Olympics. Often their transfer was practically "forced" and was not accompanied by an adequate job of preparation.
I have focused my work on the Condominium Coimbra, located in Santa Cruz, in the West Zone of the city, the most populated, an extremely peripheral district distant 60 km from the city center and the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema.
These new neighborhoods were built in areas where basic services are lacking when not completely absent. They are areas of little value where businesses have found it advantageous to buy and build as much to pay was the Federal Government. The condominium Coimbra was opened a year ago but it seems already crumbling.
Despite being forbidden by law, many have already sold the house that has been assigned "to the price of banana" or have rented. In the area, to cope with the lack of work many people opened commercial activities in theirs homes.
Someone have preferred to go back to the favela where they come frome, more dangerous but more integrated into the city, where it was easier to find small jobs and where they can be helped by the community to which they belonged. But for many people this new situation, however, represents a major step forward, the possibility of a new beginning.