When The World Cup Comes to Town The Poor Get The Shaft

Countries wishing to host the World Cup offer FIFA a ship of incentives for that right.  They'll provide tax breaks, eminent domain,  exclusive commercial rights, forced closure of small businesses, exclusive economic zones plus whatever FIFA demands.  All for the right to ensure increased corporate and FIFA profits while insuring the poor get shafted.

The Tufi Community occupying derelict factory is one of many forced out in trend accelerated by World Cup and Olympics
  

A constant stream of residents now wander into the Tufi Community – as it has been named – with scavenged lumber, plywood and tarpaulin, which is quickly hammered and pinned to form doorways, walls and roofs. But this is a DIY social project in more ways than one. With no support from the government and suspicion from many of the public, the residents have little alternative but to help themselves.

Almost everyone here is from Alemão, a favela complex that has started to move upmarket since it was "pacified" by police in 2010. Rent rises are now pushing out the poor who were struggling on the fringes of the favela.

"We live in total poverty," said Marianne Christina da Silva, the secretary of the residents' association. "There is no sewage, no drinking water and very few people have electricity. But people moved here because they had to choose whether their children would eat or whether they would have a home."

Isn't wonderful that the World Cup in Brazil is lifting all boats:  All the boats belonging to the wealthy and politically powerful.  

The Tufi Community is one of many mass squats in Brazil's biggest cities that have been set up by those who complain they have been priced out of their homes. Occasionally, this results in violent evictions. In March, riot police used teargas to clear a nascent community of several thousand people from a factory owned by the Oi telecoms company. The displaced residents have since moved to three other locations and vented their frustration by burning public buses and a police car.

This week, a thousand homeless families in São Paulo reportedly moved into a site just two miles from the opening venue of the World Cup. They were bussed to the site by the Landless Workers' Movement, which says the occupation aims to highlight the failure of government promises to improve social housing.