Brazilians filmmakers love documentaries about poverty. Their films on the subject are already a style.

Book about slums in Brazil available for download

Center for Metropolitan Studies and INPE launches software for planning of social policies that allows the analysis of geo-referenced data in urban spaces. Program can be downloaded for free online.

More than 12 million Brazilians live in slums in some 560 municipalities with more than 150,000 inhabitants, located in metropolitan areas.

Many social policies are common responsibility between the federal, states and municipalities, which causes confusion in finding who to turn to.