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Witness' new short documentary People Before Profit portrays glimpses of forced evictions around the world, expressing the trauma that citizens feel when their homes and possessions are violently taken from them.

In a fast-urbanising planet, São Paulo develops a model toolkit to improve housing for the poor and dispossessed.

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