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Deadly highrise fire in Brazil spotlights city's housing crisis and the squatter movement it spawned

  • Written by Patricia Rodrigues Samora, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas

A massive fire in historic downtown São Paulo, Brazil, on May 1 has killed at least one person, with three more suspected dead. Several neighboring buildings, including a church, were destroyed, scorched or evacuated.

The 25-story building that caught fire and later collapsed was a vacant former police headquarters now occupied by...

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