A girrl washes up outside her home, a wooden shack at the Casa Verde land invasion Sao Paulo Brazil

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Landscape view of the Casa Verde land invasion Sao Paulo with the highrise buildings of the city centre in the background Brazil. Some squats can be successful. Casa Verde was a great victory for the popular housing movement in Sao Paulo. 1,500 families occupied an empty plot and refused to move. Eventually the city council installed water septic tanks for sewage and organised rubbish disposal. Negotiations to transfer land titles to the squatters are progressing july 1991

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Size: 5232px × 3531px
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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