Rio 2016 Olympic Village

Despite the existence of the Vila inhabitants' property titles, Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro reduced the original size of the community by 83% using expropriations and eviction orders.

[4][5] Afterwards, following constant clashes against the riot police after resisting evictions, families affected formed a civil society called Viva A Vila Autódromo!.

They received consultancy of several Rio de Janeiro universities and organisations of the civil society to elaborate Plano Popular da Vila Autódromo (Popular Plan of Vila Autódromo), a plan of urbanisation that was agreed with the mayor of the city, Eduardo Paes, to give to the village a place with a new urban infrastructure that will include a cultural centre and sportive fields and coexist with the new Olympic infrastructure of suitable way, while being surrounded almost completely by the new Olympic park.

The buildings received LEED ND environmental certification because 85% of the demolished former communities were reused and the complex has more than 16,000 square metres (170,000 sq ft) of green flat roofs as well as 75 solar plates to warm water.

[9] Some officials deemed the athletes' village as "unlivable" and unsafe because of major plumbing and electrical hazards still present two weeks before the Olympic Games were due to open.

Blocked toilets, leaking pipes, exposed wiring, darkened stairwells where no lighting had been installed and dirty floors were among the reported problems at some apartments in the complex.