January 26, 20188 yr Active Members Very interesting article on the declining fortunes of Rio, along with some stellar photography. https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/grasping-rios-beauty-and-tragedy-joao-pina/?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-0&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region
January 27, 20188 yr Author Active Members New pictures of Rio might now include the increasing number of homeless people settling around Copacabana Beach...and alarming the residents! They fear the neighborhood is heading toward slum status. They are fighting back. Read all about it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/copacabana-beach-is-a-symbol-of-brazil-now-its-also-symbolic-of-its-homeless-problem/2018/01/26/51441672-ffcb-11e7-86b9-8908743c79dd_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.c85ebc138718
January 27, 20188 yr Active Members The homeless in my south zone neighborhood demonstrate a staggeringly impressive work ethic ... double shifts in oppressively hot weather. It is a 433 against 1 unfair fight in this city, give or take data inaccuracy. It is favorably loaded towards the homeless over the privileged because sheer survival drive and resilience outweigh the pathetic lack of organization of those with a roof and and a full belly. The problem is not the growth of the problem. The problem is that even within any closed-system community of 400 residents anywhere in our society there can be no agreement reached on sharing the responsibility of carrying merely 1 of their own.
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