“…According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), a favela or “subnormal agglomeration” is defined as an illegal occupation of at least 51 housing units (Snyder, Jaimes, Riley, Faerstein, & Corburn, 2014). However, the definition presented by the country’s Ministry of Cities encompasses a more broad definition of Brazilian favelas, anchored in two aspects: (a) it is a mostly residential area, inhabited by low-income families, and (b) it is characterized by the existence of precarious conditions of living, including a number of inadequacies such as irregular ownership of the land, absence of infrastructure, location in areas poorly served by state services, often also observing a high populational density, and located in areas unfit for construction due to environmental risks (Queiroz Filho, 2015).…”