Title: Favela - Wikipedia
Headings: Favela
Favela
Contents
History
Public policy towards favelas
Pacifying police units
Main article: Pacifying Police Unit
Formation of favela society and culture
Drugs in the favelas
Growth and removal of the favelas
Religion
Music
Popularization of favela culture
Tourism
In popular culture
See also
References
Notes
Further Reading
External links

Content: 74). This was the beginning of almost a century of aggressive eradication policies that characterised state-sanctioned interventions. Favelas in the early twentieth century were considered breeding grounds for anti-social behavior and spreading of disease. The issue of honor pertaining to legal issues was not even considered for residents of the favelas. After a series of comments and events in the neighborhood of Morro da Cyprianna, during which a local woman Elvira Rodrigues Marques was slandered, the Marques family took it to court. This is a significant change in what the public considered the norm for favela residents, who the upper classes considered devoid of honor all together. Following the initial forced relocation, favelas were left largely untouched by the government until the 1940s. During this period politicians, under the auspice of national industrialisation and poverty alleviation, pushed for high density public housing as an alternative to the favelas (Skidmore 2010). The "Parque Proletário" program relocated favelados to nearby temporary housing while land was cleared for the construction of permanent housing units (Skidmore 2010). In spite of the political assertions of Rio's Mayor Henrique Dodsworth, the new p