r/UrbanHell

When you think about it, hermetically cutting a major city in two is properly insane.

Picture from 2019

Residencial Vista Bela: When Mass Housing Becomes Urban Isolation

1,440 apartments and 1,272 houses. 2,712 housing units in total were built on the northern fringe of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. At the time, the development was expected to house more than 13,000 people.

Affordable housing should not mean housing people far away from jobs, schools, healthcare, commerce, public transportation and other essential services.

Otherwise, what looks like a successful housing project on paper can become urban segregation by design: thousands of people housed together, but physically separated from the rest of the city.