05.5 CONCLUSION
This chapter illustrates the various ways in which the team worked toward our goal of supporting UNMP’s drafted self-management bill. Using an interactive and accessible website to host our many deliverables, the team employed a number of approaches to document Brazil’s severe housing crisis while maintaining an optimistic outlook and showcasing the hope that comes with understanding the strength of autogestão. This project demonstrates the resiliency of the movement and its members, allowing viewers to envision a better future through autogestão. The issues contributing to Brazil’s housing crisis have been made clear in this chapter — inconsistent and unstable housing policies, profit-driven housing production, and a scarcity of centrally located land, among many others. An additional challenge that our clients face in the production of autogestão housing is compliance with complex and often costly environmental requirements, namely Brazil’s Forest Code and state and municipal regulations related to the preservation of native vegetation. The next chapter will describe the team’s second major objective: assisting our clients with navigating these complex regulations and increasing community engagement with preservation areas.
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