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Countdown to the DNC : Denver’s Homeless to Get Coiffed
4:02 am By Maegan La Mala · DNC| denver| housing · Comments Off
21 Aug 2008
The Democratic National Convention is only days away, and everyone is getting themselves beautiful for the event, including the homeless in Denver.
There are an estimated 4,000 homeless people in the DNC host city and instead of attempting to find real solutions, it’s much easier to do a makeover. That is, hide them from view, pretend they don’t exist, and fix em up so they don’t look so unsightly.
They arranged for free movie passes and bingo games to get them off the street, as well as temporary housing and free tickets to the zoo and Museum of Nature and Science…According to Rick Sallinger of the CBS TV station, Denver Human Services has been handing out coupons for free homeless haircuts.
But what happens when the media eye shifts away from Denver and the balloons have been deflated?
Via / LA Times
La Perla de Puerto Rico
8:25 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Money| Politics| Puerto Rico| housing · 7 Comments
2 Sep 2007
La Perla de San Juan Puerto Rico is a shanty town/slum/neighborhood with squatter roots made famous infamous by the arguable racist anthropological study La Vida by Oscar Lewis. As a child I was never allowed to go inside la Perla, located in prime real estate, in old San Juan overlooking the sea. My grandmother gave me La Vida as a gift, justifying why I was never to go to la Perla or any other Puerto Rican housing project. Tourists in all guides are advised not to go in la Perla. La Perla has a reputation for being dangerous, kind of like a Puerto Rican City of God , rife with drugs and dangerous crime. And while that may be true to an extent, La Perla is also a thriving community of survival rich with culture and history which makes plans for development a cause for concern.
Favelas As Art
4:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts| Brazil| housing| travel · Comments Off
22 Feb 2007
When people travel, housing projects aren’t usually part of their itineraries. Just like most people don’t seek out their art in housing projects either. The housing projects of Brazil, favelas, are notorious for their violence. Those same favelas ,though, are becoming canvases for art by outsiders.
The open air gallery, where crumbling shacks have become giant canvasses, is the brainchild of Jeroen Koolhaas, a Dutch illustrator who works for New Yorker magazine, and Dre Urhahn, an art director from Amsterdam.“Normally, outsiders would only come here to buy cocaine,” said Mr Urhahn, who admits to having found empty cartridges on the scaffolding used for the painting. “The museum is about giving them another reason to visit the community.”
Get a Brazilian city for just 2 million bucks
11:36 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| housing · Comments Off
7 Nov 2006
Sky-high property prices may make it impossible for most of us to buy a house in San Francisco or New York City, but for a mere $2.2 million you can get a whole Brazilian city. An abandoned one, yes, but one with 70 houses, a 22 room hotel, a grocery store and much more. It’s like playing dollies!
Located in Southeast Brazil, in the state of Minas Gerais, the ghost town has but one inhabitant: an engineer named Nilton Braz, who takes care of the place and is in charge of the sale, according to Spain’s 20 Minutos.
The city, built 35 years ago to house the workers on the Jaguará dam project has 70 houses, a 22-room hotel, a grocery store, a town square, a school, , tiene 70 casas, un hotel de 22 habitaciones, un supermercado, plaza, escuela, a church and paved streets…
The best part? It’s never been lived in.
According to 20 Minutos, there have been offers to buy the city from as far away as the U.S. and Germany.
Check out the town’s website: I think I even see some swimming pools in the photos.
Via / 20 Minutos
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