#4 Social Displacement
A big event such as the Olympics needs a lot of area and space to create the Games Village and the sporting arenas throughout the city. In Rio, that space was created by displacing a huge number of people from their homes. It is believed that around 77,000 people have been displaced by the government in Rio to create the stadiums and the Village.
These areas known as “favelas” or shantytowns have been destroyed to the core forcibly by the authorities. Such activities have left the people of these favelas with nowhere to live now. But the government of Rio has already paid around $30 million as compensation to the people they have displaced.
But some families continue to protest against the taking away of their homes by the government.
This kind of repulsion from the people of the favelas has only caused more worries for the Organising Committee of the Games as these families have planned to protest during the events so that the entire world can see what is happening in Brazil.
