Housing and Urbanism

Also, I can't talk about desfavelização (slum elimination) without talking about infrastructure, and without talking, for example, about a spending cut in terms of state expenditure.

And with very heavy investments, through a reverse auction policy, so that in 10 years Brazil no longer has favelas.

And at the same time, I believe in initiatives like having the panic button placed where women are generally more vulnerable, in more secluded places, and I am also one of the adherents to the broken-windows theory and, let us say, curious about Gary Becker's study of the economics of crime, to also understand that there is a role of environmental order within public safety.

What do you think about building one of these in Araxá?

I think Brazil could use a few more structures like this.

In my hometown, I think there's still plenty of space to develop, no need for buildings that tall.

But Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, without a doubt, could make better use of buildings like these that we have here; in Brazil it seems only Balneário Camboriú is managing to carry that forward.

We have to flip the switch in people and say, I don't want to live in a city that has this sewage.