no elevator

by Tatiana Cardeal | March 28, 2006 at 12:58 pm | 437 views | add comment
no elevator by Tatiana Cardeal

... and 22 floors.

Prestes Maia, is a colossal abandoned clothes factory that towers over central Sao Paulo, and the biggest occupation of Latin America, with 22 storeys in total, is home to 468 families; around 2,000 people from the MSTC (Downtown Homeless People's Movement).
The owners of the building, Jorge Hamuche and Eduardo Amorim, who do not possess the title deed, abandoned the building for twenty years and owe close to BRL$5 million (EUR$1.8 million) in taxes.
But, an injunction has been issued for the repossession of the building.

Uploaded by Tatiana Cardeal | March 28, 2006 at 12:58 pm | 437 views | add comment

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The Prestes Maia Hope

""If I pay my rent, I go hungry, so I don't pay and I become homeless," they were repeatedly told. As those involved looked up at the abandoned buildings, an idea began to hatch. In 1997 MSTC occupied its first...

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