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A Sustainable Housing Model for the Global South?

June 15, 2019—Just out! Catalytic Communities’ Executive Director Theresa Williamson published a chapter entitled “The Favela Community Land Trust: A Sustainable Housing Model for the Global South”, in Critical Care: Architecture [...]
Join ‘Dream Team’ Women Organizers from Rio’s Favelas in NYC this June

Sustaining and Supporting Community Organizing Against Evictions: Strategies from Women Leaders of Rio de Janeiro Catalytic Communities, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, will be visiting New York City from June 18-22 [...]
RELEASE: ‘Stop Killing Us’ Protest This Sunday

May 23, 2019—RioOnWatch has been witnessing, with grave concern, the implementation of Rio de Janeiro’s current state and federal public security policies. Among other actions, we have denounced the increased use of helicopters in police [...]
1st Sustainable Favela Network Exchange of 2019 Visits RevoluSolar and Favela Orgânica in Babilônia

The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a project of Catalytic Communities (CatComm) designed to build and reinforce solidarity networks, bring visibility and develop joint actions to support the expansion of community-based initiatives that [...]
RioOnWatch Dissected by Cambridge Researcher

Olympics organizers consistently push the notion that the Games are good for cities, countries, and the international community. A growing body of literature suggests mainstream media coverage has a tendency to celebrate the Olympics while drowning [...]
2018 RioOnWatch Readers Mapped: 214 Countries Represented

RioOnWatch is our award-winning, bilingual community news site and the heart of Catalytic Communities’ communications strategy. We seek to shift the narrative on favelas and engender nuanced, productive, and accurate coverage through resident [...]

A Sustainable Housing Model for the Global South?

Join ‘Dream Team’ Women Organizers from Rio’s Favelas in NYC this June

RELEASE: ‘Stop Killing Us’ Protest This Sunday

1st Sustainable Favela Network Exchange of 2019 Visits RevoluSolar and Favela Orgânica in Babilônia

RioOnWatch Dissected by Cambridge Researcher

2018 RioOnWatch Readers Mapped: 214 Countries Represented

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