>>520184874
Favelas are actually a marvel in a certain way. They allow for poor men to provide a home for their families with a certain ounce of dignity, even when the economy crashes. And the sight of them devalues the property of the speculators, who can only cope and seethe that the people they price out of the market still get to ruin their investment. This is why California would rather have tens of thousands of homeless than allow them to build a favela (which California needs). There were favelas in America after the Great Depression, but they have become illegal to build since then. The people who formed the favelas were two crowds:

>original founders were workers who used to leave in dock areas, but were gentrified because the jews wanted to build a modern city center (that is mostly empty during night) and segregate the work from home areas of the city. So the gentrified workers had to settle in the hills of the city, which were mostly wilderness back then, where they built their homes and continued working
>second founders came in around 1960-1990 with the urbanization of Brazil, mostly from the northeastern regions of the country, and they populated the areas inhabited by the original founders and boosted the amount of existing favelas to around 1000

The fact that favelas look like these hill citadels is a natural consequence of Rio de Janeiro's hilly geography. This was meant to be a fortress capital of some sorts, before they moved the capital inland.

Unfortunately, these favelas (due to low income and very easy defensible positions) became holdouts for the drug traffic, who run fortresses on it and control all entrances and exists with barricades and trenches and drones and mines.

Favelas are actually based.