today, a sad look

by Tatiana Cardeal | March 27, 2006 at 09:42 am | 296 views | add comment | 0 recommendations
today, a sad look by Tatiana Cardeal

This are Romilda Nunes, 63 years old, and her sick husband, João Cosme.
They live at the Prestes Maia building.

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).

Uploaded by Tatiana Cardeal | March 27, 2006 at 09:42 am | 296 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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