Renato Cymbalista — Land Purpose
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One of the projects of the Real Estate Community Fund is a Social Investment Fund for the purchase and remodeling of tenement housing in São Paulo. image / provided
Abstract
As part of the Land Purpose exhibition at AAP, Professor Renato Cymbalista will give a talk about his experience with the Brazilian not-for-profit Real Estate Community Fund (FICA). The Land Purpose exhibition is a collection of more than 100 case studies illustrating the diversity and vitality of community ownership around the globe. From associations to herlands and black territories, these are current projects with real people who are living and working beyond the constraints of private property.
FICA is an "ethical landlord" that buys and manages real estate properties to take them away from the speculative market and rent them back equitably.
Biography
Renato Cymbalista is an architect, planner, and professor in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (USP) and Director of Human Rights and Policies for Memory, Justice and Reparation at the Provost for Inclusion and Belonging of USP. He is one of the founders of the Real Estate Community Fund (FICA), a not-for-profit for the acquisition and management of property for social purposes. He sits on the boards of Goethe Institut São Paulo, Casa do Povo, and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
